Metagenomic Approaches to Identify Novel Organisms from the Soil Environment in a Classroom Setting.

ABSTRACT: Molecular Microbial Metagenomics is a research-based undergraduate course developed at Georgia State University. This semester-long course provides hands-on research experience in the area of microbial diversity and introduces molecular approaches to study diversity. Students are part of an ongoing research project that uses metagenomic approaches to isolate clones containing 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) genes from a soil metagenomic library. These approaches not only provide a measure of microbial diversity in the sample but may also allow discovery of novel organisms. Metagenomic approaches differ from the traditional culturing methods in that they use molecular analysis of community deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) instead of culturing individual organisms. Groups of students select

SUBMITTER: Rahman SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5134946 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature