Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has advanced our understanding of the
human microbiome by allowing for the discovery and characterization of unculturable�…

Complex microbial communities shape the dynamics of various environments, ranging from
the mammalian gastrointestinal tract to the soil. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies�…

The field of microbiome research has evolved rapidly over the past few decades and has
become a topic of great scientific and public interest. As a result of this rapid growth in�…

The 16S rRNA gene has been a mainstay of sequence-based bacterial analysis for
decades. However, high-throughput sequencing of the full gene has only recently become a�…

MicrobiomeAnalyst is an easy-to-use, web-based platform for comprehensive analysis of
common data outputs generated from current microbiome studies. It enables researchers�…

Microbiome studies have become routine in biomedical, agricultural and environmental
sciences with diverse aims, including diversity profiling, functional characterization, and�…

Background The accuracy of microbial community surveys based on marker-gene and
metagenomic sequencing (MGS) suffers from the presence of contaminants—DNA�…

Our growing awareness of the microbial world's importance and diversity contrasts starkly
with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA�…

In this paper we compared taxonomic results obtained by metataxonomics (16S rRNA gene
sequencing) and metagenomics (whole shotgun metagenomic sequencing) to investigate�…

The gut is inhabited by a densely populated ecosystem, the gut microbiota, that is
established at birth. However, the succession by which different bacteria are incorporated�…