Unparalleled inventory of the human gut ecosystem

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute) Scientists gathered and published over 200 000 genomes from the human gut microbiome. The catalogue reveals that more than 70% of bacterial species in the human gut have never been grown in the lab. This new data resource could be extremely useful to investigate how the bacterial community in the human gut influences human health and disease.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news