Metagenomics

Perspectives, Methods, and Applications

Muniyandi Nagarajan

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780323917124
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Genetics & Genomics
• Index: Biological Sciences

Metagenomics: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications, second edition, provides thorough coverage of the growing field of metagenomics. A diverse range of chapters from international experts offer an introduction to the field and examine methods for metagenomic analysis of microbiota, metagenomic computational tools, and recent metagenomic studies in various environments and clinical settings. The emphasis on application makes this text particularly useful for applied researchers, practitioners, clinicians, and students seeking to employ metagenomic approaches to advance knowledge in the biomedical and life sciences. Case study-based application chapters include topics ranging from metagenome tools, metagenomics in oral disease and health, metagenomic insights into the human gut microbiome and metabolic syndromes, and more. This new edition has been fully updated to address the rapid growth and development of metagenomics applications, featuring expert discussion of recent developments and fresh case studies. Newly added chapters instruct in methods and implications of metagenomics in areas of growing focus, such as microbiome research, clinical diagnosis, metagenomic epidemiology, and plant microbe interaction. Data analysis is explained in simple terms for effective use of computational tools, software, and sequencing pipelines. - Features a diverse range of chapters from international experts - Highlights current state-of-the-art and recent advances in the field with current perspectives and case studies - Includes methods, techniques, and various computational software tools and pipelines currently used in metagenomic studies - Provokes new thought and motivations for continued study, with next steps in research discussed at the end of each chapter

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Metagenomics: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• About the editor
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Metagenomics: A paradigm shift in microbiology
• Chapter 2: Metagenomic protocols and strategies
• Chapter 3: Strategies for taxonomic and functional annotation of metagenomes
• Chapter 4: Computational and statistical considerations in the analysis of metagenomic data
• Chapter 5: Data science to biologists: Insights into microbiomics
• Chapter 6: Meta-omic and machine learning approaches to understand microbial cross talks
• Chapter 7: Measuring microbiome diversity and diversity-scaling analysis with Hill numbers
• Chapter 8: 16S rRNA-based taxonomy profiling in the metagenomics era
• Chapter 9: Metagenomics and neurodegenerative diseases
• Chapter 10: Metagenomics-guided reengineering of the gut microbiome
• Chapter 11: Metagenomics: Implications in oral health and disease
• Chapter 12: Exploring microbiome-based interventions in periodontitis: The role of prebiotics and postbiotics in oral hea ...
• Chapter 13: Understanding the resistome of the human microbiome: A metagenomic approach
• Chapter 14: SARS-CoV-2 and variants: Alternative therapies to avert COVID-19
• Chapter 15: AMR surveillance in bacteria using metagenomics
• Chapter 16: An overview of the metagenomics-based assessment of ecosystem toxicology
• Chapter 17: Metagenomic approaches to analyze earthworm-microbial interactions to maintain sustainable agroecosystem
• Chapter 18: Plant health in the era of metagenomics: Current state and future prospects
• Chapter 19: The Agave and Cacti microbiome: Models for a planet under global warming
• Chapter 20: Marine invertebrate-microbe interactions: An insight into immunogenomics through metagenomic approach
• Chapter 21: Advances of functional metagenomics in harnessing thermozymes
• Index
• Back Cover