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Tech Blast | Microbiome data


In this Tech Blast episode, we discuss generating, standardizing and sharing microbiome data with Raul Cano, Chief Scientific Officer at The BioCollective (CO, USA). Raul provides a brief overview of the reproducibility crisis and explores how the use of standards and databases can address the challenges it poses.

Get Raul’s insight into the field and discover the steps that can be taken to make microbiome research more accessible and reproducible.

Contents:

  • Introduction: 00:00–00:40
  • Overview of the reproducibility crisis: 00:40–02:25
  • The importance of standards for microbiome data: 02:25–05:05
  • Sharing microbiome data: 05:05–07:10
  • Comparing microbiome databases: 07:10–08:20
  • The significance of metadata: 08:20–08:50
  • How databases can enhance the use of standards: 08:50–10:05
  • Databases help standardize microbiome research: 10:05–10:45
  • Benefits of sharing data: 10:45–11:40

This content was supported by Zymo Research.