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A phylogeny-based sampling strategy and power calculator informs genome-wide associations study design for microbial pathogens

Farhat MR, et al. Genome Medicine 2014, 6:101.

BAsE-Seq: a method for obtaining long viral haplotypes from short sequence reads

Hong LZ, et al. Genome Biology 2014, 15:517.

Characterizing the genetic basis of bacterial phenotypes using genome-wide association studies: a new direction for bacteriology  [PDF 432.40 KB]

Timothy D Read and Ruth C Massey Genome Medicine 2014, 6:109

Clinical laboratory response to a mock outbreak of invasive bacterial infections: a preparedness study

Olsen RJ, et al. J Clin Microbiol 2014; 52(12): 4210-4216.

Enhanced methods for unbiased deep sequencing of Lassa and Ebola RNA viruses from clinical and biological samples

Matranga CB, et al. Genome Biol 2014 Nov 18;15(11):519.

Equipment-free incubation of recombinase polymerase amplification reactions using body heat

Crannell ZA, et al. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112146.

Comment:

Rice U team shows feasibility of body heat-activated isothermal amplification for low-resource MDx

Johnson M. GenomeWeb, Nov 18, 2014.

Evaluation of viral genome assembly and diversity estimation in deep metagenomes

Aguirre de Carcer D, et al. BMC Genomics 2014, 15:989.

Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND

Buchfink B, et al. Nat Methods 2014 Nov 17.

Protein microarrays for parasite antigen discovery

Driguez P, et al. Methods Mol Biol 2015;1201:221-33.

SRST2: Rapid genomic surveillance for public health and hospital microbiology labs

Inouye M, et al. Genome Medicine 2014, 6:90.

Rapid core-genome alignment and visualization for thousands of intraspecific microbial genomes

Treangen TJ, et al. Genome Medicine 2014, 15:524.

Unexpected cross-species contamination in genome sequencing projects

Merchant S, et al. PeerJ 2:e675.

Comment:

Researchers find sequences from contaminants within genomes housed in public databases

GenomeWeb, Nov 20, 2014.