Analysis of the microbiome: Advantages of whole genome shotgun versus 16S amplicon sequencing

R Ranjan, A Rani, A Metwally, HS McGee… - … and biophysical research …, 2016 - Elsevier
The human microbiome has emerged as a major player in regulating human health and
disease. Translational studies of the microbiome have the potential to indicate clinical …

Comparing apples and oranges?: next generation sequencing and its impact on microbiome analysis

AG Clooney, F Fouhy, RD Sleator, A O'Driscoll… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Rapid advancements in sequencing technologies along with falling costs present
widespread opportunities for microbiome studies across a vast and diverse array of …

Shallow shotgun sequencing reduces technical variation in microbiome analysis

AJ La Reau, NB Strom, E Filvaroff, K Mavrommatis… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The microbiome is known to play a role in many human diseases, but identifying key
microbes and their functions generally requires large studies due to the vast number of …

Quantitative assessment of shotgun metagenomics and 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing in the study of human gut microbiome

I Laudadio, V Fulci, F Palone, L Stronati… - OMICS: A Journal of …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
The analysis of microbiota composition in humans, animals, and built environments is
important because of emerging roles and applications in a broad range of disease and …

An introduction to next generation sequencing bioinformatic analysis in gut microbiome studies

B Gao, L Chi, Y Zhu, X Shi, P Tu, B Li, J Yin, N Gao… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The gut microbiome is a microbial ecosystem which expresses 100 times more genes than
the human host and plays an essential role in human health and disease pathogenesis …

Gut microbiome diversity detected by high-coverage 16S and shotgun sequencing of paired stool and colon sample

J Mas-Lloret, M Obón-Santacana, G Ibáñez-Sanz… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
The gut microbiome has a fundamental role in human health and disease. However,
studying the complex structure and function of the gut microbiome using next generation …

Progress of analytical tools and techniques for human gut microbiome research

EJ Song, ES Lee, YD Nam - Journal of Microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Massive DNA sequencing studies have expanded our insights and understanding of the
ecological and functional characteristics of the gut microbiome. Advanced sequencing …

Characterization of shallow whole-metagenome shotgun sequencing as a high-accuracy and low-cost method by complicated mock microbiomes

W Xu, T Chen, Y Pei, H Guo, Z Li, Y Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Characterization of the bacterial composition and functional repertoires of microbiome
samples is the most common application of metagenomics. Although deep whole …

High throughput sequencing methods and analysis for microbiome research

JM Di Bella, Y Bao, GB Gloor, JP Burton… - Journal of microbiological …, 2013 - Elsevier
High-throughput sequencing technology is rapidly improving in quality, speed and cost. It is
therefore becoming more widely used to study whole communities of prokaryotes in many …

Library preparation methodology can influence genomic and functional predictions in human microbiome research

MB Jones, SK Highlander… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Observations from human microbiome studies are often conflicting or inconclusive. Many
factors likely contribute to these issues including small cohort sizes, sample collection, and …