Curtis Huttenhower

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

PICRUSt2 for prediction of metagenome functions

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this...

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

Dysfunction of the intestinal microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease and treatment

The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis result from alterations in intestinal microbes and the immune system. However, the precise dysfuncti...

Toward an Efficient Method of Identifying Core Genes for Evolutionary and Functional Microbial Phylogenies

Microbial community metagenomes and individual microbial genomes are becoming increasingly accessible by means of high-throughput sequencing. Assessing organismal membership wit...