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ReviewTranslational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine2017

High-resolution characterization of the human microbiome.

Cecilia Noecker, Colin P McNally, Alexander Eng, Elhanan Borenstein

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Review in Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Microbiome and Communication Disorders: A Tutorial for Clinicians.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025
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  17. A Review on the Nasal Microbiome and Various Disease Conditions for Newer Approaches to Treatments.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Cecilia Noecker *Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Colin P McNally *Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Alexander Eng *Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Elhanan BorensteinDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Funding

INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN GENOMIC SCIENCEST32HG000035 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Bruce Colston Trapnell · 1995 to 2026
$24.2M
A Computational Framework for Designing Microbiome ManipulationDP2AT007802 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI BORENSTEIN, ELHANAN · 2012 to 2012
$2.3M
NCCIH NIH HHS DP2 AT007802NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG000035
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human microbiome plays an important and increasingly recognized role in human health. Studies of the microbiome typically use targeted sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, whole metagenome shotgun sequencing, or other meta-omic technologies to characterize the microbiome's composition, activity, and dynamics. Processing, analyzing, and interpreting these data involve numerous computational tools that aim to filter, cluster, annotate, and quantify the obtained data and ultimately provide an accurate and interpretable profile of the microbiome's taxonomy, functional capacity, and behavior. These tools, however, are often limited in resolution and accuracy and may fail to capture many biologically and clinically relevant microbiome features, such as strain-level variation or nuanced functional response to perturbation. Over the past few years, extensive efforts have been invested toward addressing these challenges and developing novel computational methods for accurate and high-resolution characterization of microbiome data. These methods aim to quantify strain-level composition and variation, detect and characterize rare microbiome species, link specific genes to individual taxa, and more accurately characterize the functional capacity and dynamics of the microbiome. These methods and the ability to produce detailed and precise microbiome information are clearly essential for informing microbiome-based personalized therapies. In this review, we survey these methods, highlighting the challenges each method sets out to address and briefly describing methodological approaches.

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HumansMetagenomeMetagenomicsMicrobiotaMolecular Sequence AnnotationRNA, Ribosomal, 16SRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Identifiers

PMID27513210
PMCPMC5164958

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