Programming Note: Biology of Genomes Meeting

If all has gone well, I'm at Cold Spring Harbor for the Biology of Genomes meeting (actually, I'm here a day early for the Microbiome 'pre-meeting'), so responding to email and comments will be sporadic. You know you're in a fast-moving area when the last figure is assembled Friday morning (because the data were just released), and by Sunday--two days later--your poster is out of date....

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