From Great Prairie to Gigabytes: Sequencing the Genomes of a Microbial Ecosystem
Thursday, August 23, 2018 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
The American Midwest's Great Prairie is one of the country's most important ecological systems and its soil microbes are essential to the carbon cycle. The Great Prairie Metagenome Grand Challenge is sequencing the genes of microbial communities to better understand their ecological role.