Metagenomics has revolutionized microbiology by paving the way for a cultivation-
independent assessment and exploitation of microbial communities present in complex …

Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have allowed significant breakthroughs in
microbial ecology studies. This has led to the rapid expansion of research in the field and …

With advances in next-generation sequencing technologies, numerous novel transcripts in a
large number of organisms have been identified. With the goal of fast, accurate assessment …

ABSTRACT The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) Classifier, a naïve Bayesian
classifier, can rapidly and accurately classify bacterial 16S rRNA sequences into the new …

We have applied “whole-genome shotgun sequencing” to microbial populations collected
en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the …

Almost immediately after a human being is born, so too is a new microbial ecosystem, one
that resides in that person's gastrointestinal tract. Although it is a universal and integral part …

Background and aim: A role for the intestinal microbial community (microbiota) in the onset
and chronicity of Crohn's disease (CD) is strongly suspected. However, investigation of such …

To help advance the species definition for prokaryotes, we have compared the gene content
of 70 closely related and fully sequenced bacterial genomes to identify whether species …

ABSTRACT rRNA-based studies, which have become the most common method for
assessing microbial communities, rely upon faithful amplification of the corresponding genes …

Ruminants have the remarkable ability to convert human-indigestible plant biomass into
human-digestible food products, due to a complex microbiome residing in the rumen …