Every day we are dealing with countless microbes. But the latest research on a metagenomics shows that the microbial population on our skin surface is highly stable. These little guys are wrapping around us, like an invisible “little universe”. The bacteria, fungi and viruses on our skin are mostly harmless, and even healthy. But there […]
Researchers from St. Petersburg State University developed a method to improve the sequencing ability of DNA greatly, like life microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract or the ocean bacteria in a new study. This TruSPADES method assembles the short reads from the 300 base pairs of Illumina machine through computer into synthetic long reads. The […]
The concept of metagenome was proposed by Handelsman in 1998. It is the sum of DNA in a specific circumstance. Metagenomics is the research about the genome of micropopulation in the circumstance. It studies the microbial diversity, microbial population, evolutionary relationship, and its relationship with circumstance by structure functional gene screening and sequencing analysis. This […]
Metagenomics, basically speaking, is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples. In a broader sense, it can also be referred to environmental genomics, or ecogenomics. In traditional, cultivated clonal cultures were used most for microbiology and microbial genome sequencing. However, through those processes, a large number of microbial biodiversity had been missed. […]
Sample Submission Guidelines