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  • Microbiology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Ecology

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  • Human microbiomes are integral to health, but their analysis via sequencing is complex, costly, and time-consuming.
  • There's a growing need for rapid, high-resolution methods to monitor dynamic microbiome changes.
  • Current methods limit routine, on-time assessment of microbial communities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel workflow for analyzing microbiome data using microbial community flow cytometry.
  • To enable intuitive interpretation of complex, high-dimensional single-cell cytometric time-series data.
  • To adapt macro-ecological concepts for microbiome analysis and community stability assessment.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized microbial community flow cytometry to generate high-dimensional, single-cell data using three parameters.
  • Developed and adapted bioinformatics tools, inspired by macro-ecology, to interpret cytometric time-series data.
  • Applied concepts like community assembly, functioning, evolution, meta-community dynamics, and stability for data interpretation.

Main Results:

  • The workflow provides an easy-to-use method for microbiome handling and measurement.
  • The approach allows for high-acuity characterization of whole communities over time.
  • Ecological measures and community stability can be rapidly quantified, enabling timely intervention.

Conclusions:

  • This flow cytometry workflow offers a high-throughput, cost-effective alternative for microbiome analysis.
  • The method provides novel insights into microbiome ecology and dynamics.
  • Future developments aim for cytometric fingerprinting to become a routine diagnostic tool for human health management.