Construction of a dairy microbial genome catalog opens new perspectives for the metagenomic analysis of dairy fermented products.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microbial communities of traditional cheeses are complex and insufficiently characterized. The origin, safety and functional role in cheese making of these microbial communities are still not well understood. Metagenomic analysis of these communities by high throughput shotgun sequencing is a promising approach to characterize their genomic and functional profiles. Such analyses, however, critically depend on the availability of appropriate reference genome databases against which the sequencing reads can be aligned.

Results

We built a reference genome catalog suitable for short read metagenomic analysis using a low-cost sequencing strategy. We selected 142 bacteria isolated from dairy products belonging to 137 different species and 67 genera, and succeeded to rec

SUBMITTER: Almeida M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4320590 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature