Horizontal gene transfert & mothur !

Theory behind mothur
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Im thinking in combine mothur for study the lateral gene transfert phenomena into metacommunities !

  • here some interesting applications on hgt and relatives ! :

http://almlab.mit.edu/angst/

http://www.trex.uqam.ca/

http://old-bioinfo.cs.rice.edu/phylonet/

http://www.bioinfo.uqam.ca/~TOVL13037604/ (only french lovers)

and much more ! the question is how it could be used in metacommunities ? :idea:
for the moment i have a couples of ideas ! i hope it could work !

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Detecting HGT Events WorkBench …comming soon :

http://adn.bioinfo.uqam.ca/armadillo/wiki/index.php/Detecting_HGT_Events_workbench

…we really think that mothur could be incorporated in this pipeline in order to asses the LGT events into metacommunities !

L.