How to wrange with marine microbes

Materials for class on Monday, July 20, 2020

What advantages are there for data scientists if there is a single data structure like the \({\tt tibble}\)?
Do a bit of archaelogy and figure out what this ancient \({\tt data.frame}\) is.
Would science be better served if there were more standardized ways of making data and metadata available? (I’m considering Sunagawa et al’s approach here.)
What is an OTU? What is a 97% OTU?
What is a prokaryote?
What are the filter sizes used by Tara Oceans?
Why is filtering important?

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