Metagenomics for Microbiology
- 2nd Edition - August 4, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Jacques Izard, Maria Rivera
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 3 7 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 3 7 7 - 8
Metagenomics for Microbiology, Second Edition unveils the intricate and diverse world of microbial communities, emphasizing their critical roles in health, disease, and ecosys… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMetagenomics for Microbiology, Second Edition unveils the intricate and diverse world of microbial communities, emphasizing their critical roles in health, disease, and ecosystem functionality. This updated edition addresses the significant challenges in the field and introduces promising approaches to make metagenomics research more feasible. Through comprehensive revisions and over five new chapters, readers are equipped with the latest research data and analyses, advancing their understanding of microbial principles. Notably, this edition provides a robust foundation for the design and analysis of omics studies, focusing on technological underpinnings and practical applications. It remains an essential resource for characterizing microbial consortia.
- 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
- Includes a new chapter on long read applications using Nanopore technology
- Provides a new chapter on probability distributions that underpin the structure of microbiome ecosystems
- Covers bio surveillance of diseases and biodefense
Clinical and environmental microbiologists, molecular biologists, infectious disease experts, statisticians, biostatisticians, and public health scientists; graduate students and new researchers
1. Steps in Metagenomics: We Insist, Let’s Avoid Garbage in and Garbage Out
2. Long read applications using Nanopore technology
3. Taxonomic Microbiome Profiling
4. Probability distributions underpinning the structure of microbiome ecosystems
5. Longitudinal Microbiome Data Analysis
6. Toward the Understanding of the Virome
7. Metagenomics for biosurveillance of diseases and biodefense
8. Gut microbiome of Invertebrates
9. Oral microbiome as a model system to understand host microbiome interactions
10. Research Developments in Microbiome Studies
11. Promises and Prospects of Microbiome Studies
2. Long read applications using Nanopore technology
3. Taxonomic Microbiome Profiling
4. Probability distributions underpinning the structure of microbiome ecosystems
5. Longitudinal Microbiome Data Analysis
6. Toward the Understanding of the Virome
7. Metagenomics for biosurveillance of diseases and biodefense
8. Gut microbiome of Invertebrates
9. Oral microbiome as a model system to understand host microbiome interactions
10. Research Developments in Microbiome Studies
11. Promises and Prospects of Microbiome Studies
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 4, 2025
- No. of pages (Paperback): 220
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443223761
- eBook ISBN: 9780443223778
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Jacques Izard
Jacques Izard works at The Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAMR
Maria Rivera
Maria Rivera works in the School of Life Sciences and Sustainability, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States.
Affiliations and expertise
School of Life Sciences and Sustainability, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States