Soil is often considered to be one of the main reservoirs of microbial diversity on the planet. This diversity could...

The human microbiome is a complex system of many microbial communities inhabiting a diversity of environmental niches...

As a deep subsurface biosphere is thought to be the biggest biosphere in the earth, it is very interesting to know...

Trillions of microbes live in our digestive tract and influence our biology in profound and diverse ways. Several...

The Gazetteer (Gaz) is a community-based project of the EnvO Consortium for describing instances of organism...

Since the first metagenomics study was published 17 years ago, the ability to make ecological inferences has been...

Inigo San Gil, University of New Mexico The Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) creates long-term ecological...

Jeroen Raes, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Comparative metagenomics is a powerful tool to detect...

The first day at Metagenomics 2008 is discussed in a Q & A panel session at the end of the day.

With the MIGS/MIMS specifications the Genomic Standards Consortium has finished the groundwork to enrich our genome...