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Metagenomic Analysis of Silage
Published on: January 13, 2017
Metagenomics in ophthalmology: current findings and future prospectives
Davide Borroni1,2,3,4, Vito Romano5,3, Stephen B Kaye5,3
1St Paul's Eye Unit, Department of Corneal and External Eye Diseases, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom info.borroni@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Less than 1% of all microorganisms of the available environmental microbiota can be cultured with the currently available techniques. Metagenomics is a new methodology of high-throughput DNA sequencing, able to provide taxonomic and functional profiles of microbial communities without the necessity to culture microbes in the laboratory. Metagenomics opens to a 'hypothesis-free' approach, giving important details for future research and treatment of ocular diseases in ophthalmology, such as ocular infection and ocular surface diseases.
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