Blog

Technical notes and short explainers from real omics projects. Written from practice, not theory.

Most posts start with a decision someone got wrong. What platform to use. When to stop troubleshooting and redesign. Why the negative control is the most important sample in the experiment. Each post gives the answer directly, then the reasoning behind it.

Topics covered include metagenomics QC, sequencing depth trade-offs, amplicon versus shotgun decisions, long-read workflows, diversity metrics, normalisation methods, multi-omics integration, soil and environmental microbiome characterisation, and the One Health connections between environmental biology and human health.