Overview
- Editors:
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Karen E. Nelson
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J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, USA
- Includes seminal contributions from leaders in the emerging field of metagenomics
- Provides data from large data sets, including the human body, the oceans and soils
- Constitutes a centralized resource for information in metagenome science
- Combines new and established information in the field of metagenomics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (108 entries)
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A
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- Torsten Thomas, Jack Gilbert, Folker Meyer
Pages 1-9
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- Shiyuyun Tang, Mark Borodovsky
Pages 13-19
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- Fengzhu Sun, Li Charlie Xia
Pages 21-25
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- Pablo Yarza, Raul Munoz, Jean Euzéby, Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Rudolf Amann et al.
Pages 25-33
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- Eriko Takano, Rainer Breitling, Marnix H. Medema
Pages 33-38
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- Chantal Hamel, Luke D. Bainard, Mulan Dai
Pages 43-47
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- Marcio R. Lambais, David E. Crowley
Pages 49-54
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- Orla O’Sullivan, Colin Hill, Paul Ross, Paul Cotter
Pages 54-60
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- Ching-Hung Tseng, Chon-Kit Kenneth Chan, Arthur L. Hsu, Saman K. Halgamuge, Sen-Lin Tang
Pages 60-73
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- Geun-Joong Kim, Ho-Dong Lim
Pages 73-77
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C
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- Brandi Cantarel, Pedro Coutinho, Bernard Henrissat
Pages 79-84
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- Matthew B. Scholz, Chien-Chi Lo, Patrick Chain
Pages 84-93
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About this book
Metagenomics has taken off as one of the major cutting-edge fields of research. The field has broad implications for human health and disease, animal production and environmental health. Metagenomics has opened up a wealth of data, tools, technologies and applications that allow us to access the majority of organisms that we still cannot access in pure culture (an estimated 99% of microbial life). Numerous research groups are developing tools, approaches and applications to deal with this new field, as larger data sets from environments including the human body, the oceans and soils are being generated. See for example the human microbiome initiative (HMP) which has become a world-wide effort and the Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) surveys. The number of publications as measured through PubMed that are focused on metagenomics continues to increase. The field of metagenomics continues to evolve with large common datasets available to the scientific community. A concerted effort is needed tocollate all this information in a centralized place. By having all the information in an Encyclopedia form, we have an opportunity to gather seminal contributions from the leaders in the field, and at the same time provide this information to a significant number of junior and senior scientists. It is anticipated that the Encyclopedia will also be used by many other groups including, clinicians, undergraduate and graduate level students, as well as ethical and legal groups associated with or interested in the issues surrounding metagenome science.
Editors and Affiliations
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J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, USA
Karen E. Nelson
About the editor
Dr. Nelson is the President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Dr. Nelson has extensive experience in microbial ecology, microbial genomics, microbial physiology and metagenomics. Since joining the JCVI legacy institutes, Dr. Nelson has led several genomic and metagenomic efforts and led the first human metagenomics study that was published in 2006. Additional ongoing studies in her group include metagenomic approaches to study the ecology of the gastrointestinal tract of humans and animals, studies on the relationship between the microbiome and various human and animal disease conditions, reference genome sequencing and analysis primarily for the human body and other omics studies. Dr. Nelson received her undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. She has authored or co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications and edited three books and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Microbial Ecology. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of BMC Genomics, Giga Science and the Central European Journal of Biology. She is also a standing member of the NRC Committee on Biodefense, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board of Life Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
