Consortium Sequences Gut Microbiomes for 124 People on Illumina GA
March 09, 2010
Consortium Sequences Gut Microbiomes for 124 People on Illumina GA
The sequencing was done at BGI-Shenzen and marked the first step in the four-year MetaHIT project, which aims to create a comprehensive gene catalog of the gut microbiome in order to understand how the bacteria that live in human intestines are related to disease.
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