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Bioinformatics Resources for Microbial Research in Biological Systems

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Microbial Genomics in Sustainable Agroecosystems

Abstract

Bioinformatics is a continuously evolving field since it came into existence and contributing significantly in all major areas of biological sciences. Advanced sequencing technologies and exponential growth in computational resources have facilitated the high-end bioinformatics application in various research areas such as microbiome research in biological system. Bioinformatics contributed significantly in the development of powerful methods and tools in metagenomics research through direct inspection of targeted and nontargeted DNA in environmental samples. Advances in metagenomics, high-throughput methods, tools, software, pipelines, databases and analysis products for the microbes and microbiome-related studies have shifted the field of microbiology from culturing and microscopy studies to DNA sequencing and bioinformatics analyses. In the last decade, various long-term research projects and studies have flooded the microbiome sequencing data and analyses. Now, microbial community is realized that the next decade of microbial research will need data management, sharing, mining and networking skills to enhance knowledge discovery and regulation of microbial communities in ecosystem. Here, we are describing the microbiome researches in different biological domains, microbial databases and tools, which can be useful for application of microbes in emerging applied fields.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Bioengineering, University of Information Science and Technology (UIST), St. Paul The Apostle, Ohrid, Republic of North Macedonia

    Brijesh Singh Yadev

  2. Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Pallavi Chauhan

  3. Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

    Sandeep Kushwaha

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  1. Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vijay Tripathi

  2. Department of Forestry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India

    Pradeep Kumar

  3. Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Pooja Tripathi

  4. Department of Botany, Kamla Nehru P.G. College, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Amit Kishore

  5. Department of Forestry, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, India

    Madhu Kamle

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Yadev, B.S., Chauhan, P., Kushwaha, S. (2019). Bioinformatics Resources for Microbial Research in Biological Systems. In: Tripathi, V., Kumar, P., Tripathi, P., Kishore, A., Kamle, M. (eds) Microbial Genomics in Sustainable Agroecosystems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9860-6_3

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