Introduction to Microbiome
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B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y
Introduction to Microbiome
By Jon Jongsik ChunProfessor, Seoul National UniversityCEO, ChunLab, Inc.
Version 2018-01-05
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2B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Microbiota
Microbiome
The community of microbial species that live in
a given environment.
All of the genomes inside these microbial cells
are what constitute the microbiota.
3B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Fecal microbiota transplant
Fecal microbiome transplant
Sequencing microbiota
Sequencing microbiome
4B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Microbiota & Microbiome
•Human
•Animal
•Soil
•Water
•Food (e.g. Kimchi)
•Any environment
5B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Holobiont & Holobiome
Assemblages of different species that
form ecological units.
Source: https://blog.thryveinside.com/the-layout-of-the-human-microbiota/
by Lynn Margulis(Endosymbiosis theory)
6B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Great plate anomaly
Sample
Microscopic counting(direct)
Plate counting(by culturing)>>
95 : 5
7B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Unculturable vs. Uncultured
Preferred!
8B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Method for Microbiome Research
• Metagenome (Handelsman et al., 1998)
- The DNA of the total microbiota found in a given
environment/sample
• Metagenomics
- Study of microorganisms by high throughput sequencing without
culturing
- Culture-independent study (no bias by culturing)
9B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
• Most of bacteria are not culturable in routine laboratory conditions.
• In natural environments, even culturable bacteria are not in the
culturable condition (a phenomenon called Viable-But-Non-
Culturable[VBNC])
• No resource for large scale isolation and characterization
Why metagenomics?
10B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
11B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Omics Tools of Microbiome Studies
Microbiome
Direct sampling
Metagenomics
Meta-
transcriptomics
Meta-proteomics
Meta-
metabolomics
CulturingConventional
microbiology
DNA
mRNA
Proteins
Metabolites
Strain/Genome
12B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Goals of Microbiome Studies
Who are they?
What do
they do?
How do
they do?
Taxonomic
Profiling
Functional
Profiling
Mechanism
Study
13B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
New paradigm for human microbiology
Microbiology
Infectious Diseases• Single strain• Culture
Microbiome• Metagenomics (No culturing)• Ecological perspective
14B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
“Microbiome” is booming
Source: Google
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Source: PubMed
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Public
ations
Microbiome-related publications in PUBMED
“Microbiome” searches by Google
15B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrgastro.2017.97
16B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
Microbiome Cookbooks
Source: www.amazon.com
17B I O I N F O R M A T I C S f o r M I C R O B I O L O G Y . C H U N L A B
• Microbiota is a community of microorganisms.
• A microbiome is all DNA of a microbiota.
• Metagenomics is the culture-independent study of a microbiome
through DNA sequencing or other techniques.
• Unlike infectious diseases, microbiome study requires ecological concept
and methodology.
Summary of the Chapter