The NIH Human Microbiome Project
| Autor: | Valentina Di Francesco, Jean E. McEwen, Carl C. Baker, Jeffery A. Schloss, Samir Zakhari, Susan Garges, Bracie Watson, Tsegahiwot Belachew, Kris A. Wetterstrand, Matthew E. Portnoy, Michael H. Sayre, A. Roger Little, Beena Akolkar, Carolyn Deal, Lindsey Grandison, Jane Peterson, Michael Wright, Lisa Begg, Jag H. Khalsa, Pamela Starke-Reed, Rachelle Salomon, Jennifer S. Read, Hannah Peavy, Robert W. Karp, T. Kevin Howcroft, Christina Giblin, Chris Mullins, Cindy D. Davis, Pamela McInnes, Christopher Wellington, Lu Wang, R. Dwayne Lunsford, Melody Mills, Hagit David, Maria Y. Giovanni, Carol H. Pontzer, Vivien Bonazzi, Michael C. Humble, Mark S. Guyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Knowledge management National Health Programs Biology Bioinformatics Human health Resource (project management) RNA Ribosomal 16S Genetics Humans Microbiome Genetics (clinical) Skin Mouth Bacteria NIH Roadmap business.industry Human microbiome Sequence Analysis DNA United States Gastrointestinal Tract National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Metagenomics Earth Microbiome Project Vagina Metagenome Female business Human Microbiome Project |
| Zdroj: | The Human Microbiota |
| ISSN: | 1088-9051 |
| Popis: | The Human Microbiome Project (HMP), funded as an initiative of the NIH Roadmap for Biomedical Research (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov), is a multi-component community resource. The goals of the HMP are: (1) to take advantage of new, high-throughput technologies to characterize the human microbiome more fully by studying samples from multiple body sites from each of at least 250 “normal” volunteers; (2) to determine whether there are associations between changes in the microbiome and health/disease by studying several different medical conditions; and (3) to provide both a standardized data resource and new technological approaches to enable such studies to be undertaken broadly in the scientific community. The ethical, legal, and social implications of such research are being systematically studied as well. The ultimate objective of the HMP is to demonstrate that there are opportunities to improve human health through monitoring or manipulation of the human microbiome. The history and implementation of this new program are described here. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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