about.Rmd

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title: "About this site"
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Marker-gene and shotgun metagenomic sequencing have become the tools of choice for measuring microbiomes.
But these tools have a variety of technical limitations, which leave the accuracy and biological meaningfulness of their measurements unclear.
This site aims to serve as a crowd-sourced repository of knowledge of these limitations and the latest in experimental and data-analysis techniques designed to overcome them.