Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental or clinical samples by a method called sequencing. The broad field may also be referred to as environmental genomics, ecogenomics, community genomics or microbiomics.

Metagenomics offers a means of solving practical problems facing humanity. Cracking the secrets of some of Earth’s countless microbial communities will reveal ways to meet myriad challenges in biomedicine, agriculture, and environmental stewardship.

4 天之前 · Metagenomics is the study of the structure and function of entire nucleotide sequences isolated and analyzed from all the organisms (typically microbes) in a bulk sample.

2024年7月6日 · Metagenomics is the study of all genomes of organisms isolated from a bulk sample. It is particularly useful for studying communities of microorganisms in various environments, such as human skin or water samples.

Metagenomics applies a suite of genomic technologies and bioinformatics tools to directly access the genetic content of entire communities of organisms. The field of metagenomics has been responsible for substantial advances in microbial ecology, ...

2025年1月7日 · Metagenomics describes the analysis of genetic information in a microbial community to provide taxonomic or functional information on the constituent microorganisms.

Metagenomics provides a new way of examining the microbial world that not only will transform modern microbiology but has the potential to revolutionize understanding of the entire living world.

Defining the metagenomic characteristics of microbial communities in the biosphere is a critical first step in understanding their contributions to the health of the planet, their roles in the well-being of humans, and the environmental consequences of human activities.

Metagenomics is a young overarching discipline that seeks to understand population dynamics and interactions among vast microbial worlds that have not been revealed by traditional culture methods in the microbiology laboratory.

2008年9月24日 · Metagenomics provides the first broad insights into coexisting (sympatric) populations, as every sequence read is derived from a different individual within a given community.