The gut microbiota is emerging as a promising target for the management or prevention of
inflammatory and metabolic disorders in humans. Many of the current research efforts are …

Rapid advances in DNA sequencing, metabolomics, proteomics and computational tools are
dramatically increasing access to the microbiome and identification of its links with disease …

With the continued evolution of DNA sequencing technologies, the role of genome
sequence data has become more integral in the classification and identification of Bacteria …

Background Taxonomic classification of marker-gene sequences is an important step in
microbiome analysis. Results We present q2-feature-classifier (https://github. com/qiime2/q2 …

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

Immune systems distinguish “self” from “nonself” to maintain homeostasis and must
differentially gate access to allow colonization by potentially beneficial, nonpathogenic …

Current practice in the normalization of microbiome count data is inefficient in the statistical
sense. For apparently historical reasons, the common approach is either to use simple …

Motivation: Sequence-based methods to delimit species are central to DNA taxonomy,
microbial community surveys and DNA metabarcoding studies. Current approaches either …

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

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