復旦構(gòu)建全球微生物基因目錄

A team from Fudan University in Shanghai has launched the world's most comprehensive global microbial gene catalog - a database containing 303 million unigenes that will help researchers better understand the relationship between microorganisms and human health.

上海復旦大學的一個研究團隊發(fā)布了全球最全面的微生物基因目錄，共包含3.03億個物種級的基因，這將幫助研究人員更好地理解微生物和人類健康之間的關(guān)系。

A paper about the catalog, "Towards the Biogeography of Prokaryotic Genes", was published in the science journal Nature on Thursday.
相關(guān)研究成果《原核生物基因的生物地理學研究》于12月16日以長文形式發(fā)表于《自然》主刊。

To collect all the genes in the global microbiome to create the catalog, a team from Fudan's Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence - Luis Pedro Coelho, Zhao Xingming and Peer Bork created the database based on 13,000 pieces of publicly available data.
為了收集全球微生物組中的所有基因并創(chuàng)建目錄，來自復旦大學類腦研究院的路易斯•佩德羅•科埃略、趙興明和皮爾•伯克團隊對1.3萬個公開宏基因組樣本進行挖掘，構(gòu)建了該目錄。

The researchers said microbiome research is normally carried out according to different habitats such as human microorganisms and marine microorganisms, but the catalog can analyze microbial metagenomes in different habitats on a global scale.
研究人員表示，傳統(tǒng)微生物組研究按照人類微生物、海洋微生物等不同棲息地分別進行研究，但該目錄可以在全球范圍內(nèi)分析不同棲息地的微生物宏基因組。