The Human Microbiome Project
The Human Microbiome Project
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Description
The NIH-funded Human Microbiome Project (HMP) is a collaborative effort of over 300 scientists from more than 80 organizations to comprehensively characterize the microbial communities inhabiting the human body and elucidate their role in human health and disease. To accomplish this task, microbial community samples were isolated from a cohort of 300 healthy adult human subjects at 18 specific sites within five regions of the body (oral cavity, airways, urogenital track, skin, and gut). Targeted sequencing of the 16S bacterial marker gene and/or whole metagenome shotgun sequencing was performed for thousands of these samples. In addition, whole genome sequences were generated for isolate strains collected from human body sites to act as reference organisms for analysis. Finally, 16S marker and whole metagenome sequencing was also done on additional samples from people suffering from several disease conditions.
License
The data is publicly available to the community free of charge.
Documentation
How to cite
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Support information
General AWS Data Exchange support
Resources on AWS
Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::human-microbiome-projectAWS Region
us-west-2AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://human-microbiome-project/Usage examples
Publications
- New microbe genomic variants in patients fecal community following surgical disruption of the upper human gastrointestinal tract by Ranjit Kumar, Jayleen Grams, Daniel I. Chu, David K.Crossman, Richard Stahl, Peter Eipers, et al
- Strains, functions and dynamics in the expanded Human Microbiome Project by Jason Lloyd-Price, Anup Mahurkar, Gholamali Rahnavard, Jonathan Crabtree, Joshua Orvis, A. Brantley Hall, et al.
- The Human Microbiome Project by Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley, Micah Hamady, Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Rob Knight & Jeffrey I. Gordon