‘Omics, tools of the trade.
With studying the microbiome/biota, how do we rip out the data we need? What do we even need and what are we looking for? ‘Omics technologies provide the basis for understanding microbiomes, and there are four general areas that answer different types of questions:
Microbes, Microbiota, and the Ecosystems you live with.
You remember that first science lecture you had in middle school, the one where you learned you have a bunch of tiny microbes crawling all over your face? It gets worse…