Translating the human microbiome Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Over the past decade, an explosion of descriptive analyses from initiatives, such as the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) and the MetaHIT project, have begun to delineate the human microbiome. Inhabitants of the intestinal tract, nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract and urogenital tract have been identified using whole genome sequencing, cultivation, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics and metabolomics. ...