Microbiome
A microbiome is the community of microorganisms that can usually be found living together in any given habitat. Microbiome research has grown substantially over the past decade in terms of the range of biomes sampled, identified taxa, and the volume of data derived from the samples.
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Introduction to Microbiome Analysis
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| Analyses of metagenomics data - The global picture |
Metabarcoding / Amplicon analyses
Taxonomic characterisation of mixed samples using a single gene region.
Metagenomics
Taxonomic and functional characterisation and assembly of mixed samples using whole genome data.
Metatranscriptomics
Taxonomic and functional characterisation of mixed samples using transcriptome data.
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| Metatranscriptomics analysis using microbiome RNA-seq data | |||||
| Metatranscriptomics analysis using microbiome RNA-seq data (short) |
Metaproteomics
These tutorials are step by step analysis from database generation to the discovery of peptides to verification, quantitation, and interpretation of the results.
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| Clinical Metaproteomics 1: Database-Generation | |||||
| Clinical Metaproteomics 2: Discovery | |||||
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| Clinical Metaproteomics 4: Quantitation | |||||
| Clinical Metaproteomics 5: Data Interpretation |
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Assorted Tutorials
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| Identifying Mycorrhizal Fungi from ITS2 sequencing using LotuS2 | |||||
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Query an annotated mobile genetic element database to identify and annotate genetic elements (e.g. plasmids) in metagenomics data
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Contributors
This material was contributed to by:
Natalie Whitaker-Allen
Nuwan Goonasekera
Katherine Do
Fabio Cumbo
Rand Zoabi
Praveen Kumar
Bérénice Batut
Igor Makunin
Cristóbal Gallardo
Dechen Bhuming
Nicola Soranzo
Nikos Pechlivanis
Timothy J. Griffin
Polina Polunina
Bert Droesbeke
Anna Syme
Clea Siguret
Björn Grüning
Christine Oger
Emma Leith
Bethan Manley
Deepti Varshney
Hans-Rudolf Hotz
Armin Dadras
Matthias Bernt
Ray Sajulga
Helena Rasche
Santino Faack
Emma Gail
Giuseppe Defazio
Vini Salazar
Nadia Goué
Tristan Reynolds
Pratik Jagtap
Willem de Koning
Xenia Morera Martínez
Sophia Hampe
Subina Mehta
William Durand
Linelle Abueg
Teresa Müller
Tarnima Omara
Saskia Hiltemann
Gayle Philip
Laura Geissler
Ashley Dungan
Dave Clements
Mina Hojat Ansari
Paul Zierep
Didier Debroas
Siyu Chen
Sujai Kumar
Engy Nasr
Michael Thang
Fotis E. Psomopoulos
Niall Beard
Daniel Blankenberg
Wolfgang Maier
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References
- Kozich JJ, Westcott SL, Baxter NT, Highlander SK, Schloss PD.: Development of a dual-index sequencing strategy and curation pipeline for analyzing amplicon sequence data on the MiSeq Illumina sequencing platform. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Pablo Yarza, Pelin Yilmaz, Elmar Pruesse, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, William B. Whitman, Jean Euzéby, Rudolf Amann, Ramon Rosselló-Móra: Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences.