A framework for human microbiome research
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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 from 16S ribosomal RNA genes and over 3.5 terabases of metagenomic sequence so far. In parallel, approximately 800 reference strains isolated from the human body have been sequenced. Collectively, these data represent the largest resource describing the abundance and variety of the human microbiome, while providing a framework for current and future studies. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium has established a population-scale framework to study a variety of microbial communities that exist throughout the human body, enabling the generation of a range of quality-controlled data as well as community resources. The Human Microbiome Project (HMP), supported by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund, has the goal of characterizing the microbial communities that inhabit and interact with the human body in sickness and in health. In two Articles in this issue of Nature, the HMP Consortium presents the first population-scale details of the organismal and functional composition of the microbiota across five areas of the body. An associated News & Views discusses the initial results — which, along with those of a series of co-publications, already constitute the most extensive catalogue of organisms and genes related to the human microbiome yet published — and highlights some of the major questions that the project will tackle in the next few years.
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The record
- Venue
- Nature
- Topic
- Gut microbiota and health
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Canadian institutions
- McGill UniversityUniversity of Guelph
- Funders
- Los Alamos National LaboratoryU.S. National Library of MedicineDivision of Biological InfrastructureCrohn's and Colitis FoundationNational Institute of General Medical SciencesNational Cancer InstituteNational Human Genome Research InstituteDefense Threat Reduction AgencyNational Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchGordon and Betty Moore FoundationCrohn's and Colitis Foundation of CanadaVlaamse regeringNational Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin DiseasesNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney DiseasesOffice of ScienceHorace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of MichiganArmy Research OfficeFonds Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekGladstone InstitutesHoward Hughes Medical InstituteU.S. Department of EnergyRice UniversityNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesNational Institutes of HealthNational Science Foundation
- Keywords
- MicrobiomeHuman microbiomeComputational biologyHuman Microbiome ProjectData scienceBiologyComputer scienceBioinformatics
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