[Hot Papers!] Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Pete

Emmanuelle Le Chatelier et al. Abstract We are facing a global metabolic health crisis provoked by an obesity epidemic. Here we report the human gut microbial composition in a population sample of 123 non-obese and 169 obese Danish individuals. We find two groups of individuals that differ by the number of gut microbial genes and thus gut
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[Hot Papers!] Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Pete

Morgan G I Langille, Jesse Zaneveld, J Gregory Caporaso, Daniel McDonald, Dan Knights, Joshua A Reyes, Jose C Clemente, Deron E Burkepile, Rebecca L Vega Thurber, Rob Knight, Robert G Beiko & Curtis Huttenhower Abstract Profiling phylogenetic marker genes, such as the 16S rRNA gene, is a key tool for studies of microbial communities but does not provide direct evidence of a community’s functional capabilities. Here we
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