Hundreds and thousands of microbial genomes. What to do? How to scale?

Eoin Brodie1,2, Ricardo J Alves1, James Bentley Brown3, K. Dana Chadwick4, Brian Joseph Enquist5, Nicola Falco1, Ulas Karaoz1, Katharine Maher4, Sergi Molins1, Gianna Marschmann1, Patrick Sorensen1, Carl I Steefel1, Heidi Steltzer6, Jinyun Tang1, Haruko Murakami Wainwright1 and Shi Wang1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, United States