A variety of microbial communities and their genes (microbiome) exist throughout the human
body, playing fundamental roles in human health and disease. The NIH funded Human
Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium has established a population-scale framework which
catalyzed significant development of metagenomic protocols resulting in a broad range of
quality-controlled resources and data including standardized methods for creating,
processing and interpreting distinct types of high-throughput metagenomic data available to …

A variety of microbial communities and their genes (the microbiome) exist throughout the
human body, with fundamental roles in human health and disease. The National Institutes of
Health (NIH)-funded Human Microbiome Project Consortium has established a population-
scale framework to develop metagenomic protocols, resulting in a broad range of quality-
controlled resources and data including standardized methods for creating, processing and
interpreting distinct types of high-throughput metagenomic data available to the scientific …