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The field of metagenomics (study of a system’s microbiome) comes with various questions researchers are called to answer. Questions about the microbiota’s identity, the interactions of the participating bacteria, fungi, and viruses and their associations with health and disease. Nowadays, the answers to these questions are revealed via next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics pipelines. NGS has allowed us to study even the unculturable microbiota whereas the development of appropriate in silico methodologies has made analyzing them fast, accurate, and accessible.
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Dovrolis, N. (2021). In Silico Metagenomics Analysis. In: Gazouli, M., Theodoropoulos, G. (eds) Gut Microbiome-Related Diseases and Therapies. The Microbiomes of Humans, Animals, Plants, and the Environment, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59642-2_2
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