Metagenomics for Microbiology,

Edition 2

Editors: Edited by Jacques Izard and Maria Rivera

Publication Date: 04 Aug 2025

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Metagenomics for Microbiology, Second Edition unveils the intricate and diverse world of microbial communities, emphasizing their critical roles in health, disease, and ecosystem functionality. This updated edition addresses the significant challenges in the field and introduces promising approaches to make metagenomics research more feasible. Through comprehensive revisions and over five new chapters, readers are equipped with the latest research data and analyses, advancing their understanding of microbial principles. Notably, this edition provides a robust foundation for the design and analysis of omics studies, focusing on technological underpinnings and practical applications. It remains an essential resource for characterizing microbial consortia.

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Describes updated methodologies with best-practice prescription, from sample to data analysis, for current metagenomic studies
Updates on sample preparation, data production, data clean up, data analysis, statistics, and experimental biology, with accompanying descriptions
Includes a new chapter on long read applications using Nanopore technology
Provides a new chapter on probability distributions that underpin the structure of microbiome ecosystems
Covers bio surveillance of diseases and biodefense

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Edited by Jacques Izard, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Maria Rivera, School of Life Sciences and Sustainability, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States

1. Toward success in omics studies
Jacques Izard
2. The changing landscape of microbiome characterization methods: tools, trends, and trajectories
Naupaka Zimmerman, Emma Aronson and Jacques Izard
3. The use of metagenomics for biothreat and emerging threat applications
Dominick A. Centurioni, Alexander J. Diaz, Michael J. Perry and Christina T. Egan
4. Metagenomics, microbiomes, and symbioses
Maria C. Rivera
5. Hypothesis testing of metagenomic data
Rohan Mishra and William D. Shannon
6. An update and review of ribosomal RNA depletion methods for microbial transcriptomics
Shaomei He
7. Anything, anyone, anywhere: metagenomic sequencing with Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Jessica L. Davies, Julia Eales, Caz Harrold and Aaron Pomerantz
8. Highly accurate long-read PacBio HiFi sequencing for microbiome and metagenomic applications
Jeremy E. Wilkinson and Daniel M. Portik
9. Genome centric metagenomics: concepts and resources
Mick Arnold Cornelis Adriaansens and Craig William Herbold
10. Understanding and modeling the structure of omics data through the lens of probability distributions
Kerry L. Ivey
11. Metabolomics in microbial ecology: sample preservation, storage, and integration with metagenomics
Brenan Durainayagam, Kelli D. Goodman, Adam D. Kennedy and Annie M. Evans
12. The event of multiomics in metagenomics
Himel Mallick, Mainak Bardhan, Chaitali Dagli, Ziyu Liu and Jialin Gao

ISBN: 9780443223761

Page Count: 308

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Clinical and environmental microbiologists, molecular biologists, infectious disease experts, statisticians, biostatisticians, and public health scientists; graduate students and new researchers

Metagenomics for Microbiology,

Editors: Edited by Jacques Izard and Maria Rivera

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