Publications

Testing the advantages and disadvantages of short- and long- read eukaryotic metagenomics using simulated reads

Published in BMC Bioinformatics, 2020

This paper is about the benefits of long read vs short read metagenomics in inferring community comosition using simulated reads.

Recommended citation: Pearman, W.S., Freed, N.E. & Silander, O.K. Testing the advantages and disadvantages of short- and long- read eukaryotic metagenomics using simulated reads. BMC Bioinformatics 21, 220 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-3528-4 https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-020-3528-4/

MARES, a replicable pipeline and curated reference database for marine eukaryote metabarcoding

Published in Scientific Data, 2020

This paper describes the MARES pipeline and database, developed for easy generation of custom COI databases to aid in metabarcoding.

Recommended citation: Arranz, V., Pearman, W.S., Aguirre, J.D. et al. MARES, a replicable pipeline and curated reference database for marine eukaryote metabarcoding. Sci Data 7, 209 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0549-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0549-9

Concordant geographic and genetic structure revealed by genotyping‐by‐sequencing in a New Zealand marine isopod

Published in Ecology and Evolution, 2020

This paper is about the population genomics of Isocladus armatus across both large and small spatial scales in New Zealand.

Recommended citation: Population structure and dispersal across small and large spatial scales in a direct developing marine isopod William S. Pearman, Sarah J. Wells, Olin K. Silander, Nikki E. Freed, James Dale 2020.03.01.971333; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.01.971333 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6802