The National Institutes of Health Human Microbiome Project

Lita M Proctor

doi:10.1016/j.siny.2016.05.002

The National Institutes of Health Human Microbiome Project

Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2016 Dec;21(6):368-372. doi: 10.1016/j.siny.2016.05.002. Epub 2016 Jun 29.

Author

Lita M Proctor¹

Affiliation

¹ Coordinator, Human Microbiome Project, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Electronic address: lita.proctor@nih.gov.

PMID: 27350143
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2016.05.002

Abstract

This overview describes the impetus for and the goals of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s Human Microbiome Project (HMP) and the research resources available through the HMP. As the HMP also serves as a catalyst for human microbiome research at the NIH, NIH Institutes and Centers support for this field is also briefly addressed.

Keywords: DNA sequence; Metabolomics; Metagenomics; Metatranscriptomics; Microbiome; Resources.

Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Microbiota*
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
United States