Revealing microbial communities and their function can unearth the impact microbial community structure has on its environment
how do we get from a sample...to bacterial and genetic abundance data?
Bacterial Community Profiling
Analysis of The 16s rRNA Gene
Identify/quantify entire microbial community structure
Discover bacterial taxa enriched in specific environments
Compare overall bacterial community structure between multiple environments
Predict the functional capability of bacterial communities
Metagenomics
Analysis Of the Entire Bacterial Genome
Identify/quantify entire functional gene profile
Discover novel genetic pathways of degradation or metabolism within a sample
Compare functional gene abundance between multiple samples
Map functional genes to known metabolic pathway maps to analyze the functional capability of bacteria
MetaTranscriptomiCs
RNA-Seq Analysis of the Expressed Bacterial Genome
Identify/quantify expressed functional genes
Analyze active pathways of degradation or metabolism
Compare expressed functional gene abundance between multiple samples
Map expressed functional genes to known metabolic pathway maps to analyze the active functionality of bacteria within each sample