Human Microbiome Project

Human Microbiome Project

The Public Library of Science collection of research

HMP publications in Nature:

• A Framework for Human Microbiome Research
• Structure, Function and Diversity of the Healthy Human Microbiome

 

News Articles:

• Tending the Body's Microbial Garden (from the New York Times)
• In Good Health? Thank Your 100 Trillion Bacteria (from the New York Times)
• Human Microbiome Project Provides Census of Thousands of Microbes that Live in and on Us (from the Boston Globe blog)
• Human Microbiome Project: 10,000 Species of Microbes in and on Our Bodies (from the Huffington Post)
• Human Microbiome Project Reveal Largest Microbial Map (from the BBC)
• IU Bloomington Team Plays Role in Human Microbiome Project
• IU Role in Human Microbiome Project Exposes Battle History Between Bacteria, Viruses in Human Body

 

Articles Seen on the Life Sciences Library Bulletin Board:

• Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome (PLoS Computational Biology)
• Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Phenotype, C. difficile and NOD2 Genotype Are Associated with Shifts in Human Ileum Associated Microbial Composition (PLoS One)
• A Case Study for Large-Scale Human Microbiome Analysis Using JCVI's Metagenomics Reports (METAREP) (PLoS One)
• Analyses of the Microbial Diversity across the Human Microbiome (PLoS One)
• A Core Human Microbiome as Viewed through 16S rRNA Sequence Clusters (PLoS One)
• A Metagenomic Approach to Characterization of the Vaginal Microbiom Signature in Pregnancy (PLoS One)
• Microbial Exposure During Early Life Has Persistent Effects on Natural Killer T Cell Function (Science)
• Standardized Frozen Preparation for Transplatation of Fecal Microbiota for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection (American Journal of Gastroenterology)
• Interactions Between Commensal Fungi and the C-Type Lectin Receptor Dectin-1 Influence Colitis (Science)
• Characterization of the Diversity and Temporal Stability of Bacterial Communities in Human Milk (PLoS One)
• Microbiota-Targeted Therapies: An Ecological Perspective (from Science Translational Medicine, v.4, no 137. *Not available online to IUB students; document delivery available*)
• Dirtying Up Our Diets (New York Times Op-Ed)

 

Related Information:

• The Human Microbiome Project - 2011 video from the Henry Stewart Talks series. (86 mins)
• The Integrated Microbial Genomes-Human Microbiome Project (IMG/HMP) System - a tool from the HMP providing and allowing analyzation of data
• The Human Microbiome/SitePainter Tool - another tool with visual data from the HMP