The human body hosts vast microbial communities, termed the microbiome. Less well
known is the fact that the human body also hosts vast numbers of different viruses …

The human gut microbiome is a dense and taxonomically diverse consortium of
microorganisms. While the bacterial components of the microbiome have received …

Bacteriophages have important roles in the ecology of the human gut microbiome but are
under-represented in reference databases. To address this problem, we assembled the …

The gut microbiome is shaped through infancy and impacts the maturation of the immune
system, thus protecting against chronic disease later in life. Phages, or viruses that infect …

The human gut contains a vast array of viruses, mostly bacteriophages. The majority remain
uncharacterized, and their roles in shaping the gut microbiome and in impacting on human …

The gut microbiome profoundly affects human health and disease, and their infecting viruses
are likely as important, but often missed because of reference database limitations. Here, we …

The development of next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques has enabled
researchers to study and understand the world of microorganisms from broader and deeper …

The gut microbiome is widely accepted to have a significant impact on human health yet,
despite years of research on this complex ecosystem, the contributions of different forces …

Although bacteriophages have been overshadowed as therapeutic agents by antibiotics for
decades, the emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria and a better understanding of the …

A major limitation for better understanding the role of the human gut virome in health and
disease is the lack of validated methods that allow high throughput virome analysis. To …