CIME staff welcome!
Papers this week are: Salipante SJ et al. (2014) Performance comparison of Illumina and Ion Torrent Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms for 16S rRNA-based Bacterial Community Profiling, AEM and Sinclair LS et al. (2014) Microbial community composition and diversity via 16S rRNA gene amplicons: evaluating the Illumina platform (biorxiv.org).