Pawsey internship 2017 Meta-analysis of Australian tick microbiomes Next generation sequencing Illumina MiSeq platform 16S bacterial V1-2 hypervariable region

AIMS

1. Analysis of NGS data to produce a single OTU table for all samples
2. Improve script performance
3. Compare results from curated database (step 1) against results from BLAST analysis
4. Understand dynamics affecting microbiome
5. Document steps in an interactive python notebook to provide training instructions for future analysis