OK - I am cleaning out my draft blog post list. I start many posts and don't finish them and then they sit in the draft section of blogger. Well, I am going to try to clean some of that up by writing some mini posts. Here is #2:
Saw an interesting story on Genome Web: 'Denizens' of the Deep | The Daily Scan | GenomeWeb. I have not been able to get the original article yet, but it seems that what they have done can basically be considered metagenomics for animals. They collected sloughed off cells and other material from a lake and surveyed it for animal DNA. This seems like a very cool derivative of metagenomic approaches and has enormous potential. But alas, I never got down to getting access to the paper: Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA so this will have to stay as a mini post. Damn non open access journals ...
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