What would we do without microbes?
Microbes are an essential part of our everyday lives, everything that happens in our hemisphere is touched by microbes. The chemical cycle that converts key elements of our lives (carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfure) are all depending on microbes. All living organisms such as plants, animals and humans depend on microbes, they add value to essential things in our quotidian habits. We depend on microbes to eliminate toxins in the environment, both produced naturally or man made. They protect us from severe disease and discomfort.
By making them visible, the microscope was invented, and revolutionized from decade to decade. As the years go by new technology is created…
Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples. It may also be referred to as environmental genomics, ecogenomics or community genomics. These studies have been immensely facilitated by rapid advances in next generation sequencing technology and associated by informatics approaches.
An approximate 6.5 million in North America are affected by chronic wounds and over $25 billion is spent on basic treatments. Clinical researchers are now investigating ways to analyze microorganisms which may increase and potentially save lives in the future. Environmental researchers have also found success from metagenomic analysis of bacteria from complex samples.
Unlike microbiology and microbial genome sequencing, metagenomics does not rely on cloning to produce a profile of diversity in natural sample. Metagenomics offers a powerful lens for viewing the microbial world that has the potential to revolutionize understanding of the entire living world and each living organism. As the world evolves, so does technology, in the next decades it is hoped that metagenomics, microbiology and organism level-biology will merge.
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Recourses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagenomics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54011/
http://metagenomicsrevealed.yolasite.com/process-1.php
http://marine.lifewatch.eu/metagenomics-workflow