At Ignite Seattle 3, Jordan Schwartz gave a great talk on beekeeping, where he also talked about Colony Collapse Disorder, something I first heard about in a Nature podcast. Perhaps we have a clue into the disappearance.
A Bio-IT World article points to recent work by 454 Life Sciences (now a part of Roche) and scientists at Columbia University, who used a metagenomics approach using the 454 sequencing technology and found significant traces of Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus in the collapsed colonies.
Update: Jonathan Eisen knows what he’s talking about, so check out his comment below
Technorati Tags: Colony Collapse Disorder, Bees, 454, Next Generation Sequencing
Disappearing bees, next gen sequencing and a virus
At Ignite Seattle 3, Jordan Schwartz gave a great talk on beekeeping, where he also talked about Colony Collapse Disorder, something I first heard about in a Nature podcast. Perhaps we have a clue into the disappearance.
A Bio-IT World article points to recent work by 454 Life Sciences (now a part of Roche) and scientists at Columbia University, who used a metagenomics approach using the 454 sequencing technology and found significant traces of Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus in the collapsed colonies.
Update: Jonathan Eisen knows what he’s talking about, so check out his comment below
Technorati Tags: Colony Collapse Disorder, Bees, 454, Next Generation Sequencing