From Culture to High-Throughput Sequencing and Beyond: A Layperson's Guide to the “Omics” and Diagnostic Potential of the Microbiome

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 9-17

  O'Toole, Paul W ^a   Flemer, Burkhardt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

FMT; Gastrointestinal disease; Metagenome; Microbiome; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

AMPLICON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BASE PAIRING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA CONTENT; DNA EXTRACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; EUBACTERIUM HALLII; FAECALIBACTERIUM PRAUSNITZII; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PARVIMONAS MICRA; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS STOMATIS; PHYLOGENY; PORPHYROMONAS; PYROSEQUENCING; RECTUM BIOPSY; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; GENETICS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; METAGENOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 85011275777     PISSN: 08898553     EISSN: 15581942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gtc.2016.09.003     Document Type: Review

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