Environmental DNA sequencing has revealed the expansive biodiversity of microorganisms
and clarified the relationship between host-associated microbial communities and host …

The human microbiome substantially affects many aspects of human physiology, including
metabolism, drug interactions and numerous diseases. This realization, coupled with ever …

Background The analysis of microbial communities through DNA sequencing brings many
challenges: the integration of different types of data with methods from ecology, genetics …

Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ
remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of …

This study explored the short-term planktonic microbial community structure and resilience
in Lake Lanier (GA, USA) while simultaneously evaluating the technical aspects of …

Traditional biodiversity assessment is costly in time, money and taxonomic expertise.
Moreover, data are frequently collected in ways (eg visual bird lists) that are unsuitable for …

Like all organisms on the planet, environmental microbes are subject to the forces of
molecular evolution. Metagenomic sequencing provides a means to access the DNA …

The standard pipeline for 16S amplicon analysis starts by clustering sequences within a
percent sequence similarity threshold (typically 97%) into 'Operational Taxonomic …

Shotgun metagenomics and computational analysis are used to compare the taxonomic and
functional profiles of microbial communities. Leveraging this approach to understand roles of …

Recorded observations indicating an association between intestinal microbes and health
are long-standing in terms of specific diseases, but emerging high-throughput technologies …