Experimental and analytical tools for studying the human microbiome

Generation of Multimillion-Sequence 16S rRNA Gene Libraries from Complex Microbial Communities by Assembling Paired-End Illumina Reads

(2011) Andrea K. Bartram et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PrimerProspector: de novo design and taxonomic analysis of barcoded polymerase chain reaction primers

(2011) William A. Walters et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Functional analysis of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes using SEED and KEGG

(2011) Suparna Mitra et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Removing Noise From Pyrosequenced Amplicons

(2011) Christopher Quince et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

(2011) Manimozhiyan Arumugam et al.   NATURE

Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications

(2011) Pelin Yilmaz et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

PhymmBL expanded: confidence scores, custom databases, parallelization and more

(2011) Arthur Brady et al.   NATURE METHODS

Host-Associated and Free-Living Phage Communities Differ Profoundly in Phylogenetic Composition

(2011) J. Gregory Caporaso et al.   PLoS One

Extensive personal human gut microbiota culture collections characterized and manipulated in gnotobiotic mice

(2011) A. L. Goodman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diet Drives Convergence in Gut Microbiome Functions Across Mammalian Phylogeny and Within Humans

(2011) B. D. Muegge et al.   SCIENCE

Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial Enterotypes

(2011) G. D. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

The under-recognized dominance of Verrucomicrobia in soil bacterial communities

(2011) Gaddy T. Bergmann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Meeting Report from the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) Workshop 10

(2011) Elizabeth Glass et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010.

(2011) Jack A. Gilbert et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Gut microbiome-host interactions in health and disease

(2011) James M Kinross et al.   Genome Medicine

PhylOTU: A High-Throughput Procedure Quantifies Microbial Community Diversity and Resolves Novel Taxa from Metagenomic Data

(2011) Thomas J. Sharpton et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Microbial Eukaryotes in the Human Microbiome: Ecology, Evolution, and Future Directions

(2011) Laura Wegener Parfrey et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Moving pictures of the human microbiome

(2011) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

(2011) Nicola Segata et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Microbial Metagenomics: Beyond the Genome

(2010) Jack A. Gilbert et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

SmashCommunity: a metagenomic annotation and analysis tool: Fig. 1.

(2010) Manimozhiyan Arumugam et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Sampling and pyrosequencing methods for characterizing bacterial communities in the human gut using 16S sequence tags

(2010) Gary D Wu et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biases

(2010) Eva Bellemain et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Effect of storage conditions on the assessment of bacterial community structure in soil and human-associated samples

(2010) Christian L. Lauber et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

BIPES, a cost-effective high-throughput method for assessing microbial diversity

(2010) Hong-Wei Zhou et al.   ISME Journal

Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers

(2010) Alejandro Reyes et al.   NATURE

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

Rapidly denoising pyrosequencing amplicon reads by exploiting rank-abundance distributions

(2010) Jens Reeder et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microbial community resemblance methods differ in their ability to detect biologically relevant patterns

(2010) Justin Kuczynski et al.   NATURE METHODS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Comparison of two next-generation sequencing technologies for resolving highly complex microbiota composition using tandem variable 16S rRNA gene regions

(2010) Marcus J. Claesson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Community cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis: the CAMERA resource

(2010) S. Sun et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Deep Sequencing of the Vaginal Microbiota of Women with HIV

(2010) Ruben Hummelen et al.   PLoS One

Unlocking Short Read Sequencing for Metagenomics

(2010) Sébastien Rodrigue et al.   PLoS One

Microbiome Profiling by Illumina Sequencing of Combinatorial Sequence-Tagged PCR Products

(2010) Gregory B. Gloor et al.   PLoS One

Strain-resolved community genomic analysis of gut microbial colonization in a premature infant

(2010) M. J. Morowitz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Harnessing the power of the human microbiome

(2010) M. J. Blaser   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data

(2010) S. Gnerre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women

(2010) J. Ravel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Succession of microbial consortia in the developing infant gut microbiome

(2010) J. E. Koenig et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid fluctuation of the vaginal microbiota measured by Gram stain analysis

(2010) R. M. Brotman et al.   SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS

The Effects of Alignment Quality, Distance Calculation Method, Sequence Filtering, and Region on the Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene-Based Studies

(2010) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS Computational Biology

A Primer on Metagenomics

(2010) John C. Wooley et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Characterization of the Oral Fungal Microbiome (Mycobiome) in Healthy Individuals

(2010) Mahmoud A. Ghannoum et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

ShotgunFunctionalizeR: an R-package for functional comparison of metagenomes

(2009) Erik Kristiansson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Redefining Chronic Viral Infection

(2009) Herbert W. Virgin et al.   CELL

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The NIH Human Microbiome Project

(2009) et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Metagenomic study of the oral microbiota by Illumina high-throughput sequencing

(2009) Vladimir Lazarevic et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Metatranscriptomics reveals unique microbial small RNAs in the ocean’s water column

(2009) Yanmei Shi et al.   NATURE

eggNOG v2.0: extending the evolutionary genealogy of genes with enhanced non-supervised orthologous groups, species and functional annotations

(2009) J. Muller et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

KEGG for representation and analysis of molecular networks involving diseases and drugs

(2009) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Metagenomic Analysis of Respiratory Tract DNA Viral Communities in Cystic Fibrosis and Non-Cystic Fibrosis Individuals

(2009) Dana Willner et al.   PLoS One

Pharmacometabonomic identification of a significant host-microbiome metabolic interaction affecting human drug metabolism

(2009) T. A. Clayton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time

(2009) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

The Effect of Diet on the Human Gut Microbiome: A Metagenomic Analysis in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice

(2009) P. J. Turnbaugh et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Diet-Induced Obesity Is Linked to Marked but Reversible Alterations in the Mouse Distal Gut Microbiome

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Blocking primers to enhance PCR amplification of rare sequences in mixed samples – a case study on prey DNA in Antarctic krill stomachs

(2008) Hege Vestheim et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Microbial Influences in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

(2008) R. Balfour Sartor   GASTROENTEROLOGY

A diversity profile of the human skin microbiota

(2008) E. A. Grice et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The rational exploration of microbial diversity

(2008) Christopher Quince et al.   ISME Journal

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE

Accurate taxonomy assignments from 16S rRNA sequences produced by highly parallel pyrosequencers

(2008) Z. Liu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

(2008) J. R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria

(2008) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Viral diversity and dynamics in an infant gut

(2008) Mya Breitbart et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Fungi and inflammatory bowel diseases: Alterations of composition and diversity

(2008) Stephan J. Ott et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY