Microbiome
A microbiome is the community of microorganisms that can usually be found living together in any given habitat. Microbiome research has grown substantially over the past decade in terms of the range of biomes sampled, identified taxa, and the volume of data derived from the samples.
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Material
You can view the tutorial materials in different languages by clicking the dropdown icon next to the slides (slides) and tutorial (tutorial) buttons below.Introduction
Start here if you are new to microbiome analyses in Galaxy.
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Introduction to Microbiome Analysis
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| Analyses of metagenomics data - The global picture |
Metabarcoding / Amplicon analyses
Taxonomic characterisation of mixed samples using a single gene region.
Metagenomics
Taxonomic and functional characterisation and assembly of mixed samples using whole genome data.
Metatranscriptomics
Taxonomic and functional characterisation of mixed samples using transcriptome data.
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| Metatranscriptomics analysis using microbiome RNA-seq data | |||||
| Metatranscriptomics analysis using microbiome RNA-seq data (short) |
Metaproteomics
These tutorials are step by step analysis from database generation to the discovery of peptides to verification, quantitation, and interpretation of the results.
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| Clinical Metaproteomics 1: Database-Generation | |||||
| Clinical Metaproteomics 2: Discovery | |||||
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| Clinical Metaproteomics 4: Quantitation | |||||
| Clinical Metaproteomics 5: Data Interpretation |
Other
Assorted Tutorials
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| Identifying Mycorrhizal Fungi from ITS2 sequencing using LotuS2 | |||||
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Query an annotated mobile genetic element database to identify and annotate genetic elements (e.g. plasmids) in metagenomics data
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Remove contamination and host reads
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Contributors
This material was contributed to by:
Niall Beard
Matthias Bernt
Cristóbal Gallardo
Tarnima Omara
Michael Thang
Ray Sajulga
Linelle Abueg
Anna Syme
Fabio Cumbo
Daniel Blankenberg
Mina Hojat Ansari
Vini Salazar
Nuwan Goonasekera
Emma Leith
Helena Rasche
Paul Zierep
Deepti Varshney
Tristan Reynolds
Igor Makunin
Rand Zoabi
Bethan Manley
Björn Grüning
Nadia Goué
Bérénice Batut
Polina Polunina
Subina Mehta
Hans-Rudolf Hotz
Didier Debroas
Teresa Müller
Timothy J. Griffin
Pratik Jagtap
Siyu Chen
Nikos Pechlivanis
Engy Nasr
Santino Faack
Fotis E. Psomopoulos
Christine Oger
Bert Droesbeke
Sophia Hampe
Sujai Kumar
William Durand
Nicola Soranzo
Dave Clements
Dechen Bhuming
Willem de Koning
Saskia Hiltemann
Praveen Kumar
Wolfgang Maier
Clea Siguret
Katherine Do
Funding
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References
- Kozich JJ, Westcott SL, Baxter NT, Highlander SK, Schloss PD.: Development of a dual-index sequencing strategy and curation pipeline for analyzing amplicon sequence data on the MiSeq Illumina sequencing platform. Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Pablo Yarza, Pelin Yilmaz, Elmar Pruesse, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, William B. Whitman, Jean Euzéby, Rudolf Amann, Ramon Rosselló-Móra: Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences.