Metagenomics for Microbiology

Metagenomics for Microbiology, Second Edition demonstrates the complexity and diversity of microbial communities and its important roles in health and disease and in ecosystem function. This new edition highlights remaining challenges and promising approaches making metagenomics research more tractable leading to efficacious translation of microbiota-based applications. Each chapter is fully updated along with over five new chapters on the most recent research data and analysis thereof to move forward our understanding of microbial principles, Metagenomics for Microbiology, Second Edition continues to provide a solid base for the design and analysis of omics studies for the characterization of microbial consortia focusing on the technological underpinnings of metagenomic approaches and their conceptual and practical applications.

• Describes updated methodologies with best-practice prescription, from sample to data analysis, for current metagenomic studies
• Updates on sample preparation, data production, data clean up, data analysis, statistics and experimental biology with accompanying descriptions
• A new chapter on long read applications using Nanopore technology
• A new chapter on probability distributions underpinning the structure of microbiome ecosystems
• A new chapter on bio surveillance of diseases and biodefense