Systems Biology of Microbiome and Human Diseases
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (9 December 2022) | Viewed by 260
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advancements in high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing and shotgun metagenomic sequencing technologies have enabled the efficient characterization of microbiota in their human hosts, and many new insights have demonstrated that microbes play an important role in shaping human health and diseases. These associations go beyond pathogens that individually cause infectious diseases but also include their complex effects on the whole human microbiome. The rapid growth of sequencing results at an unprecedented scale calls for advanced systems approaches to the identification, classification, and correlation of microbiota and human diseases. We are pleased to invite you to contribute your original manuscript to this Special Issue on the topic of the systems biology of microbiome and human diseases.
This Special Issue aims to gather original research and/or review works which contribute results and methodologies to advance our understanding of the association between the microbiome and human diseases.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Original findings connecting or excluding associations between the microbiome and human diseases.
- Applications of the microbiome in healthcare and public health to enable the prevention, treatment, or surveillance of human diseases.
- Advanced methodologies in sequencing, characterization, and novel experimental and computational study designs to interpret and explain the associations between the microbiome and human diseases.
- Research resources enabling research into the microbiome and human diseases, including but not limited to computational platforms, data repositories, knowledge bases, and services.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Chun-Nan Hsu
Dr. Andrew Bartko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbiome
- disease
- systems biology
- bacterium
- meta-omics
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