'FishTaco' sorts out who is doing what in your microbiome

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) How much do different bacterial species contribute to disease-associated imbalances in the human microbiome? A new computational method, dubbed FishTaco, is helping find out. The method looks at which microbes are present and what they are doing. Understanding imbalances in say, the human gut microbiome, might eventually suggest new ways to manage obesity, type 2 diabetes, or autoimmune diseases.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/uowh-so011917.php

Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 19, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news