Title
Measuring the microbiome: perspectives on advances in DNA-based techniques for exploring microbial life.
Abstract
This article reviews recent advances in 'microbiome studies': molecular, statistical and graphical techniques to explore and quantify how microbial organisms affect our environments and ourselves given recent increases in sequencing technology. Microbiome studies are moving beyond mere inventories of specific ecosystems to quantifications of community diversity and descriptions of their ecological function. We review the last 24 months of progress in this sort of research, and anticipate where the next 2 years will take us. We hope that bioinformaticians will find this a helpful springboard for new collaborations with microbiologists.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1093/bib/bbr080
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
microbial ecology,biodiversity,metagenomics,next generation sequencing,microbiome,visual analytics
Functional ecology,Biology,Microbiome,Metagenomics,Genomics,Bioinformatics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
SP4
1467-5463
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
James A. Foster135361.38
John Bunge282.89
Jack A. Gilbert3312.75
Jason H. Moore41223159.43