Sentences with phrase «microbial gene sequencing»

He has helped generate and interpret mountains of data through microbial gene sequencing efforts, showing how microbes influence human well - being.

«I think it's important [for journals] to be discussing this, but I think it's unrealistic to think that journals can and should play the role of the sole enforcer,» says Claire Fraser, director of The Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, which posts a range of microbial gene sequences online.

Not exact matches

Using metabolic function analyses of identified genes, we compared our human genome with the average content of previously sequenced microbial genomes.

We examined 13,355 prokaryotic ribosomal RNA gene sequences from multiple colonic mucosal sites and feces of healthy subjects to improve our understanding of gut microbial diversity.

We analyzed 7.2 terabases of metagenomic data from 243 Tara Oceans samples from 68 locations in epipelagic and mesopelagic waters across the globe to generate an ocean microbial reference gene catalog with > 40 million nonredundant, mostly novel sequences from viruses, prokaryotes, and picoeukaryotes.

After six to eight weeks, the microbial content of the mice's feces were analyzed by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing, which showed that approximately 20 kinds of oral bacteria were present in these mice.

Not only did the gene sequencing show several bacteria could break down aromatic hydrocarbons, it illuminated how various species worked together to maximize the genetic potential of the whole microbial community.

Thanks to ever - evolving gene - sequencing technology, scientists can now use microbial RNA to identify organisms.

Collaborators at Human Longevity, Inc. sequenced the microbial genes extracted from each participant's stool sample and used that information to determine which species were living where, and the relative abundance of each.

The genome contains 3 to 4 times more DNA than other microbial genomes sequenced so far, and it's chock full of useful genes with relatively little useless DNA in the way.

Much of what they sequenced turned out to be microbial contaminants, as expected, but 6 percent was cave bear nuclear DNA, including bits of 21 genes.

«The development of metagenomic sequencing of the total DNA in a microbial sample from the human body has allowed us to estimate the abundance of specific microbes and microbial genes.

For instance, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)(Turnbaugh et al, 2007; Peterson et al, 2009; Huttenhower et al, 2012) and MetaHIT (Qin et al, 2010) have generated maps of bacterial species abundances throughout the human body, reference genomes, and catalogs of more than 100 million microbial genes assembled from shotgun sequencing of in vivo communities.

$ 2,500 «Beyond bacteria» Deeper shotgun metagenome and virome characterization of one sample, plus additional marker gene sequencing (16S rRNA, 18S rRNA and ITS, for you sequencing wonks) to characterize not just the bacteria but also the viruses, microbial eukaryotes (like giardia), and fungi in your gut.

We detected the microbial communities of samples by usinghigh - throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA genes.

Following the isolation and purification of microbial DNA from all samples, we used community fingerprinting (ARISA) and high - throughput sequencing of the 16s ribosomal RNA gene (V1 - V3) to describe the microbial community structure in each group.

Professor Segal's research has two major directions 1) Gene regulation — using quantitative and computational models to understand how DNA sequence variation among human individuals generates phenotypic diversity 2) Microbiome and Nutrition — understanding how the microbial composition of individuals affect their physiology and health.

In the lead profile, Jansson represented those researchers investigating such diseases by using omics technologies - uncovering the DNA sequences, expressed genes, and metabolite signatures used to reveal links to microbial functions in the gut.

One question in analyzing microbial communities by 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing centers on whether the amplification and sequencing methods result in recovery of sequences in proportion to their representation in the original community [24].

VITCOMIC2: visualization tool for the phylogenetic composition of microbial communities based on 16S rRNA gene amplicons and metagenomic shotgun sequencing — Hiroshi Mori — BMC Systems Biology

Metagenomics is the high - throughput sequencing of microbial community DNA extracts and, because it directly sequences this DNA, it can be used to characterize changes in the genes themselves and their function.

A team from the University of California - Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, PNNL, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory sequenced nearly 150,000 genes from three microbial communities in samples from a subsurface aquifer at a uranium mill tailings site in Rifle, Colorado.

Other uses of having a known link between multiple DNA sequencing reads includes studies of structural variations in for instance cancer cells, and when linking functional genes to taxonomic groups in microbial communities.

Assigning 16S rRNA gene sequences to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) allows microbial ecologists to overcome the inconsistencies and biases within bacterial taxonomy and provides a strategy for clustering similar sequences that do not have representatives in a reference database.