Microbiota succession throughout life from the cradle to the grave

C Martino, AH Dilmore, ZM Burcham… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Associations between age and the human microbiota are robust and reproducible. The
microbial composition at several body sites can predict human chronological age relatively …

Machine learning applications in microbial ecology, human microbiome studies, and environmental monitoring

RB Ghannam, SM Techtmann - Computational and Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in nucleic acid sequencing technology have enabled expansion of our ability to
profile microbial diversity. These large datasets of taxonomic and functional diversity are key …

Consistent and correctable bias in metagenomic sequencing experiments

MR McLaren, AD Willis, BJ Callahan - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Marker-gene and metagenomic sequencing have profoundly expanded our ability to
measure biological communities. But the measurements they provide differ from the truth …

Microbial forensics: new breakthroughs and future prospects

M Oliveira, A Amorim - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
Recent advances in genetic data generation, through massive parallel sequencing (MPS),
storage and analysis have fostered significant progresses in microbial forensics (or forensic …

Elucidation of complexity and prediction of interactions in microbial communities

C Zuñiga, L Zaramela, K Zengler - Microbial biotechnology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms engage in complex interactions with other members of the microbial
community, higher organisms as well as their environment. However, determining the exact …

Transmission of airborne bacteria across built environments and its measurement standards: a review

S Fujiyoshi, D Tanaka, F Maruyama - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Human health is influenced by various factors including microorganisms present in built
environments where people spend most of their lives (approximately 90%). It is therefore …

Forensic applications of microbiomics: a review

JM Robinson, Z Pasternak, CE Mason… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The rise of microbiomics and metagenomics has been driven by advances in genomic
sequencing technology, improved microbial sampling methods, and fast-evolving …

Application of microbiome in forensics

J Zhang, W Liu, H Simayijiang, P Hu… - Genomics, Proteomics & …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies and improvements in
bioinformatics have expanded the scope of microbiome analysis as a forensic tool …

Microbiome data accurately predicts the postmortem interval using random forest regression models

A Belk, ZZ Xu, DO Carter, A Lynne, S Bucheli, R Knight… - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
Death investigations often include an effort to establish the postmortem interval (PMI) in
cases in which the time of death is uncertain. The postmortem interval can lead to the …

A review of the potential of the MinION™ single‐molecule sequencing system for forensic applications

D Plesivkova, R Richards… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The use of new sequencing technologies in forensic biology has been explored recently,
particularly using Illumina and Ion Torrent platforms. The MinION™, a single‐molecule …