A Beginner's Guide for Metagenome Analysis: ISBN: 978-1-63041-846-5

The challenge that has frustrated microbiologists for decades is how to access the microorganisms that cannot be cultured in the laboratory. Metagenomics is a relatively recently established but rapidly expanding field that uses high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies to characterize the microbial communities inhabiting different ecosystems The data generated by metagenomics experiments are both enormous and inherently noisy, containing fragmented data representing enormous genes and species. The commercial available analysis software are very complex and not user friendly. The available open source tools are very useful for the beginners for start with open source platform. The A Beginner's Guide for Metagenome Analysis book covers most popular open source software for metagenome analysis, which would be beneficial for those who are stepping into field of metagenomics.