The story of a predator that, upon eating a certain food, suddenly becomes a peaceful plant. Sort of. Free-living versus symbiotic A working definition for symbiosis is two or more species that live and interact. Mutualism means that each derives a certain benefit from the other, or at most causing no harm to each other. […]
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From predator to plant in one gulp
By Iddo on July 4th, 2009
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On Microbial Sequencing
By Iddo on January 11th, 2009
This is the 9th year the NSF & USDA hold a workshop for their microbial sequencing program awardees. (Full disclosure: I am not one of them). Most of the talks are by the awardees themselves, and there were some great talks. For me an interesting angle was it to see how software is being developed […]
