A new technique for analyzing bacterial groups has been discovered. This method uses computational strategies to uncover the details of microbial communities living in the human mouth. The technique could allow scientists and researchers to resolve indistinguishable bacteria questions from years of research.
An important step in understanding the role of oral bacteria in health and disease is to discover how many different kinds live in the mouths of healthy people, and exactly where in the mouth they normally live. Using a novel computational method called oligotyping, developed by MBL Assistant Research Scientist A. Murat Eren, scientists analyzed gene sequence data from nine sites in the oral cavity. The data was provided by The Human Microbiome Project (HMP), an effort of the National Institutes of Health that produced a census of bacterial populations from 18 body sites in more than 200 healthy individuals.
No comments:
Post a Comment