Version Control with Github 16S Lab II

Concepts to Know

Metagenomic analysis - general ideas and software for community structure, taxonomic composition, phylogenetic distances, differentially represented taxa
What is uniFrac?
What do the tools PiCrust and Tax4Fun do?
How is metagenomic (total DNA) sequencing different from targeted metagenomic (16S amplicon) sequencing - opportunities and challenges
What are the three main ways to do taxonomic id from metagenomic data?
What is software version control and why is it important?
What is meant by "distributed version control"?
git vs github
Terms from version control to be able to define: commit, merge, branch, fork, pull request, repository, conflict
How is a merge different from a pull request?
How is a fork different from a branch?