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Ongoing collaboration with Christian Marclay. ‘Graffiti Composition’ and ‘Screenplay’ are two related works consisting of live musical improvisation and performance. They are part of an ongoing collaboration with the artist Christian Marclay. 'Graffiti Composition' involved Beresford directing an invited orchestra of improvising musicians. The work focuses on making music from the random compositional acts of strangers. Prior to realization, Marclay fly-posted several hundred sheets of blank manuscript paper, collecting the sheets some days later, after passers-by had written on them – using either traditional music notation or more transgressive interference modes (colour-blocks, torn holes in or abstract graphic symbols on the paper) – and sending photographs of them to Beresford. Beresford’s directorial decisions helped these random graffiti become music via simple formal processes – restricting each musician to a handout of two MS each, or stipulating a mini-concerto for each player. Beresford’s contribution explores the paradox of improvisation stipulated by strangers and controlled, however loosely, by the structuring agency of a musical director. ‘Screenplay’ extended this collaborative process between Marclay and Beresford. Beresford and other musicians responding to a visual track comprising found and public domain moving images manipulated by Marclay – gunfight scenes from a TV Western; running water; racing cars morphing into crying children, and so on, in black-and-white, with single-colour blocks appearing and developing as lines, spots, and other suggestive ‘notation’. The elliptical, surprising, humorous nature of the images at times is hyperexplicated by the improvised music, and at others challenged, ignored or contradicted by the musicians’ interaction. ‘Graffiti Composition’ was performed by the LSO at St. Luke’s, London, March 22, 2005. ‘Screenplay’ premiered in Dundee in 2006, and toured Europe during 2007. Reviewed in the Herald (21 Feb 06) and Times (24 March 07). Beresford’s work as improviser, composer and performer was profiled in The Wire (April 2002, May 2005).

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We have developed an in-house pipeline for the processing and analyses of sequence data generated during Illumina technology-based metagenomic studies of the human gut microbiota. Each component of the pipeline has been selected following comparative analysis of available tools; however, the modular nature of software facilitates replacement of any individual component with an alternative should a better tool become available in due course. The pipeline consists of quality analysis and trimming followed by taxonomic filtering of sequence data allowing reads associated with samples to be binned according to whether they represent human, prokaryotic (bacterial/archaeal), viral, parasite, fungal or plant DNA. Viral, parasite, fungal and plant DNA can be assigned to species level on a presence/absence basis, allowing – for example – identification of dietary intake of plant-based foodstuffs and their derivatives. Prokaryotic DNA is subject to taxonomic and functional analyses, with assignment to taxonomic hierarchies (kingdom, class, order, family, genus, species, strain/subspecies) and abundance determination. After de novo assembly of sequence reads, genes within samples are predicted and used to build a non-redundant catalogue of genes. From this catalogue, per-sample gene abundance can be determined after normalization of data based on gene length. Functional annotation of genes is achieved through mapping of gene clusters against KEGG proteins, and InterProScan. The pipeline is undergoing validation using the human faecal metagenomic data of Qin et al. (2014, Nature 513, 59–64). Outputs from the pipeline allow development of tools for the integration of metagenomic and metabolomic data, moving metagenomic studies beyond determination of gene richness and representation towards microbial-metabolite mapping. There is scope to improve the outputs from viral, parasite, fungal and plant DNA analyses, depending on the depth of sequencing associated with samples. The pipeline can easily be adapted for the analyses of environmental and non-human animal samples, and for use with data generated via non-Illumina sequencing platforms.