Application of Bioinformatics in Microbiome
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 August 2024 | Viewed by 10248
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The microorganisms found in an environment and their activities are collectively referred to as the microbiome. The advent of sequencing technologies has enabled new means of studying microbiomes; it is now possible to answer the questions of “who are there”, “What can they do” and “what are they doing” for a habitat by sequencing its marker genes, meta-genomes and meta-transcriptomes, respectively. With high-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS), there has been an explosion of sequencing data, which require novel and efficient computing algorithms, software and pipelines to process, manage and interpret their embedded information. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of science that combines biology, computer science, informatics, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret biological and clinical data. Bioinformatics is not only crucial but essential to extracting meaningful information from cryptic NGS data.
This Special Issue aims to demonstrate the latest developments in bioinformatics in the NGS era that have helped advanced our understanding of the microbiome. The issue’s scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- New computing algorithms for analyzing NGS data;
- Data management platforms (online or standalone desktop databases) for NGS data;
- Pipeline development (a collection of analytic software streamlined from upstream to downstream applications);
- Bioinformatics application in the cloud platform;
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in microbiome research;
- New microbiome research discovery, both medical and non-medical, with a significant bioinformatics component;
- Reviews of the above applications.
Dr. Tsute Chen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microbiome
- microbiota
- next-generation sequencing
- genomics
- meta-genomics
- meta-transcriptomics
- taxonomy
- artificial intelligence
- bioinformatics
