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 …

Characterization of the bacterial composition and functional repertoires of microbiome
samples is the most common application of metagenomics. Although deep whole …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The advent of next generation sequencing (NGS) has enabled investigations of the gut
microbiome with unprecedented resolution and throughput. This has stimulated the …

Despite the advent of whole genome metagenomics, targeted approaches (such as 16S
rRNA gene amplicon sequencing) continue to be valuable for determining the microbial …

Background Shotgun metagenomic sequencing has improved our understanding of the
human gut microbiota. Various DNA extraction methods have been compared to find …

Although microbial communities are associated with human, environmental, plant, and
animal health, there exists no cost-effective method for precisely characterizing species and …

Both the host microbiome and the microbiome of the built environment can have profound
impacts on human health. While prior studies have suggested that the variability introduced …