ScienceDaily: DOE JGI Sets 'Gold Standard' For Metagenomic Data Analysis

ScienceDaily: DOE JGI Sets 'Gold Standard' For Metagenomic Data Analysis

My own feelings about microbial communities are very hard to characterize. "Gene-swapping collectives," "DNA pea soup" are a couple of phrases which describe this complex environment. This news article about the DOE comes as an advancement in genomics to help compute sequences and structures, make sense of the total mess of a storm microbes eventually attain in a chronic environment, and validate those findings.

Quorom Sensing

Bonnie L. Bassler: "Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria "

Quorom Sensing 'Wikipedia'.....

and a news article that may put things into context a little....
Fighting Bacteria By Preventing Them From Talking To Each Other