{"id":1178,"date":"2010-01-25T20:42:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2019-10-26T20:44:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T00:44:02","slug":"publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/25\/publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A positive post, not about Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the groups with whom I work just <a href=\"http:\/\/genomebiology.com\/2010\/11\/1\/R1\">published a paper<\/a>. It\u2019s interesting in that it may be the first paper to describe the whole genome sequencing and analysis of an entire genus. Maybe. Or not. I can\u2019t keep up with big science anymore. It\u2019s the genus that includes plague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I helped out with this at the very end of the process \u2013 when a reviewer pointed out (correctly) that a couple of the strains in the paper were not yet in the public repositories. I.e: The data wasn\u2019t *actually* available to the public yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We went digging, the lead author and I, and finally located the files based on what can be best described as \u201cthe dog shit connection.\u201d He noted that this strain had been isolated from dog feces, in Germany, in the 70s. I ran a search in the wiki on \u201cfeces,\u201d and there was the data. The rest is history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lest you think I\u2019m making this up \u2013 here\u2019s a table from the publication. I love my job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2310\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/dwan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-26-at-8.43.45-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1179\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A positive post, not about Haiti. One of the groups with whom I work just published a paper. It\u2019s interesting in that it may be the first paper to describe the whole genome sequencing and analysis of an entire genus. Maybe. Or not. I can\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}