[Born to Conserve]

-—an approach “that meant we didn’t have to know what we were looking for”-—

I think we just crossed the line — computer intelligence is now more useful than human intelligence.

[neverdem]

Deadly mushroom chemistry

FReepmail me if you want on or off my combined microbiology/immunology ping list.

[Amberdawn]

Interesting. I’ve worked with horses for 35+ years and have never even heard of one with hepatitis.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping... (Thanks, neverdem!) The really neat part to me is the idea of sequencing everything present and not prejudicing the analysis by only looking for known pathogens. (If you only find what you look for, looking for every/anything just might find the answer).

[exDemMom]

Very interesting.

I wonder what kinds of previously unidentified pathogens will show up as “next generation” sequencing tools are applied more often to research problems.