New way to analyze the microbiome
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 10:20
in Health & Medicine
A team of developers from Skolkovo, ITMO University and MIPT have presented an online service called Knomics-Biota, which allows for a comprehensive study of intestinal microbiome genetic data. Using this service, researchers can figure out what types of bacteria are present in hundreds of gut metagenomes, their relative proportion, and the amount of vitamins and other beneficial substances they produce. With the help of an interactive interface, users can look at the results from different perspectives to identify the relationship between microbiota and nutrition, lifestyle and health. The research was published in BioData Mining.