Introduction To Computational Metagenomics

Breakthroughs in highthroughput genome sequencing and highperformance computing technologies have empowered scientists to decode many genomes including our own. Now they have a bigger ambition to fully understand the vast diversity of microbial communities within us and around us and to exploit their potential for the improvement of our health and environment. In this new field called metagenomics microbial genomes are sequenced directly from the habitats without lab cultivation.