articleGenome ResearchOct 9, 2009HYBRID OA

The NIH Human Microbiome Project

TNThe NIH HMP Working GroupJLJane L. PetersonSGSusan GargesMYMaria Y. GiovanniPMPamela McInnes

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Abstract

The Human Microbiome Project (HMP), funded as an initiative of the NIH Roadmap for Biomedical Research (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov), is a multi-component community resource. The goals of the HMP are: (1) to take advantage of new, high-throughput technologies to characterize the human microbiome more fully by studying samples from multiple body sites from each of at least 250 "normal" volunteers; (2) to determine whether there are associations between changes in the microbiome and health/disease by studying several different medical conditions; and (3) to provide both a standardized data resource and new technological approaches to enable such studies to be undertaken broadly in the scientific community. The…

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  • Microbiome
  • Human Microbiome Project
  • Biology
  • Human microbiome
  • Human health
  • Resource (disambiguation)
  • Human disease
  • Data science
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Partnerships for the goals
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