Although microbial communities are associated with human, environmental, plant, and
animal health, there exists no cost-effective method for precisely characterizing species and�…

The microbiome is known to play a role in many human diseases, but identifying key
microbes and their functions generally requires large studies due to the vast number of�…

Characterization of the bacterial composition and functional repertoires of microbiome
samples is the most common application of metagenomics. Although deep whole�…

Shotgun metagenomic sequencing is a common approach for studying the taxonomic
diversity and metabolic potential of complex microbial communities. Current methods�…

The analysis of microbiota composition in humans, animals, and built environments is
important because of emerging roles and applications in a broad range of disease and�…

Background The study of microbiomes using whole-metagenome shotgun sequencing
enables the analysis of uncultivated microbial populations that may have important roles in�…

Diverse microbial communities of bacteria, archaea, viruses and single-celled eukaryotes
have crucial roles in the environment and in human health. However, microbes are�…

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

Background Shotgun metagenomic sequencing has improved our understanding of the
human gut microbiota. Various DNA extraction methods have been compared to find�…

To the Editor: The microbiome has emerged as a key aspect of human biology and has been
implicated in many disease etiologies. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing is an approach�…