Jack A. Gilbert

The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal communities vary across biomes. In contrast, we have only just begun exploring ...

Unlocking the potential of metagenomics through replicated experimental design

Metagenomics holds enormous promise for discovering novel enzymes and organisms that are biomarkers or drivers of processes relevant to disease, industry and the environment. In...

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

Abstract DNA sequencing continues to decrease in cost with the Illumina HiSeq2000 generating up to 600 Gb of paired-end 100 base reads in a ten-day run. Here we present a protoc...

The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010.

This report details the outcome the first meeting of the Earth Microbiome Project to discuss sample selection and acquisition. The meeting, held at the Argonne National Laborato...