How to Count Our Microbes? The Effect of Different Quantitative Microbiome Profiling Approaches

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has instigated the research on the role of the microbiome in health and disease. The compositional nature of such microbiome datasets makes it however challenging to identify those microbial taxa that are truly associated with an intervention or health outcome. Quant...

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Main Authors: Gianluca Galazzo, Niels van Best, Birke J. Benedikter, Kevin Janssen, Liene Bervoets, Christel Driessen, Melissa Oomen, Mayk Lucchesi, Pascalle H. van Eijck, Heike E. F. Becker, Mathias W. Hornef, Paul H. Savelkoul, Frank R. M. Stassen, Petra F. Wolffs, John Penders
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00403/full