ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Analysis of Microbial Communities: An Emerging Tool in Forensic Sciences.
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- Temporal Dynamics of Latent Fingerprint Microbiomes: A First Step to Decoding Crime Evidence.Genes · 2026Article
- Evaluation of targeted Massively Parallel Sequencing methods for forensic metagenomics.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2026Article
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- The impact of age and insects factors on cadaver microbial communities and application to postmortem interval Estimation.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- Forensic applications of the skin microbiome: a structured narrative review of donor association, contact inference, and crime-scene reconstruction.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Microbial genomics: a potential toolkit for forensic investigations.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Review
- zAMP and zAMPExplorer: reproducible scalable amplicon-based metagenomics analysis and visualization.Bioinformatics advances · 2025Article
- Effective use of skin microbiome signatures for fingerprint identification.Skin research and technology : official journal of International Society for Bioengineering and the Skin (ISBS) [and] International Society for Digital Imaging of Skin (ISDIS) [and] International Society for Skin Imaging (ISSI) · 2024Article
- A review of multi-disciplinary decomposition research and key drivers of variation in decay.International journal of legal medicine · 2024Review
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- Evaluation of the Microbiome Identification of Forensically Relevant Biological Fluids: A Pilot Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Research progress on the application of 16S rRNA gene sequencing and machine learning in forensic microbiome individual identification.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- The Future Is Now: Unraveling the Expanding Potential of Human (Necro)Microbiome in Forensic Investigations.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Toward Oral Thanatomicrobiology-An Overview of the Forensic Implications of Oral Microflora.Academic forensic pathology · 2023Review
- Application of Microbiome in Forensics.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2023Review
- Microbiome-Based Stain Analyses in Crime Scenes.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Review
- A bibliometric analysis of microbial forensics from 1984 to 2022: progress and research trends.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Postmortem skin microbiome signatures associated with human cadavers within the first 12 h at the morgue.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Applications of massively parallel sequencing in forensic genetics.Genetics and molecular biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The objective of forensic sciences is to find clues in a crime scene in order to reconstruct the scenario. Classical samples include DNA or fingerprints, but both have inherent limitations and can be uninformative. Another type of sample has emerged recently in the form of the microbiome. Supported by the Human Microbiome Project, the characteristics of the microbial communities provide real potential in forensics. They are highly specific and can be used to differentiate and classify the originating body site of a human biological trace. Skin microbiota is also highly specific and different between individuals, leading to its possibility as an identification tool. By extension, the possibilities of the microbial communities to be deposited on everyday objects has also been explored. Other uses include the determination of the post-mortem interval or the analysis of soil communities. One challenge is that the microbiome changes over time and can be influenced by many environmental and lifestyle factors. This review offers an overview of the main methods and applications to demonstrate the benefit of the microbiome to provide forensically relevant information.
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