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A framework for human microbiome research

J. Craig Venter Institute · University of Maryland, College Park · +68 more institutions

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Abstract

A variety of microbial communities and their genes (the microbiome) exist throughout the human body, with fundamental roles in human health and disease. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Human Microbiome Project Consortium has established a population-scale framework to develop metagenomic protocols, resulting in a broad range of quality-controlled resources and data including standardized methods for creating, processing and interpreting distinct types of high-throughput metagenomic data available to the scientific community. Here we present resources from a population of 242 healthy adults sampled at 15 or 18 body sites up to three times, which have generated 5,177 microbial taxonomic profiles…

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  • Microbiome
  • Human microbiome
  • Computational biology
  • Human Microbiome Project
  • Data science
  • Biology
  • Computer science
  • Bioinformatics
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