UID:
almahu_9948026775602882
Format:
1 online resource (176 pages) :
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illustrations (some color), photographs
ISBN:
0-08-101091-5
Note:
Front Cover -- Insight on Environmental Genomics: The High-throughput Sequencing Revolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Issues, Challenges, Scientific Bottlenecks and Perspectives -- 1.1. Environmental DNA -- 1.2. Consortia and international networks -- 1.3. Acquisition, management and exploitation of samples and data -- 1.4. Tomorrow's environmental genomics -- Chapter 2: Technological Revolutions: Possibilities and Limitations -- 2.1. The technological revolution of secondand third-generation sequencers -- 2.2. Genomic DNA sequencing from a single cell: "single cell genomics" -- 2.3. Availability of NGS technologies to laboratories -- 2.4. NGS data storage and processing -- Chapter 3: NGS Data Sharing and Access -- 3.1. The large DNA data banks -- 3.2. Constraints on access to DNA data banks -- 3.3. Computing architectures for NGS data -- 3.4. Standards in genomics -- 3.5. Metadata -- 3.6. Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Accuracy of NGS Data: From Sequence to Databases -- 4.1. Accuracy of NGS data -- 4.2. Accuracy of taxonomic affiliations -- 4.3. Accuracy of genome and metagenome annotations -- 4.4. Quality of the databases -- 4.5. Some best practice guidelines for the analysis of NGS data -- 4.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Taxonomy and Biodiversity -- 5.1. How can we measure biodiversity? -- 5.2. Taxonomy in the NGS era -- 5.3. Methodologies for taxonomic identification using NGS -- 5.4. Microorganisms: the present challenges to modern systematicians -- 5.5. Towards integrative taxonomy -- Chapter 6: Characterizing Biodiversity -- 6.1. Barcoding and metabarcoding in the NGS era -- 6.2. Adapting NGS approaches to environmental sample constraints and the knowledge of organisms available -- 6.3. Challenges to be met in analyzing high throughput biodiversity.
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Chapter 7: Evolution and Adaptation of Genes and Genomes -- 7.1. Discovery of recurrent selection signatures -- 7.2. Target genome sequencing methods -- 7.3. Characterization of a reference genome for adaptation studies -- 7.4. Conclusion and perspectives -- Chapter 8: Degraded and Paleogenomic DNA -- 8.1. Effects of domestication: the example of the origin and evolution of dogs -- 8.2. Biology of conservation -- 8.3. Molecular identification of manufactured goods -- 8.4. Studying the human being: from evolution to identification -- 8.5. Conclusion and perspectives -- Chapter 9: Functional Ecology and Population Genomics -- 9.1. NGS technologies and the new approaches of ecogenomics and reverse ecology -- 9.2. NGS-based analysis of functional traits: reconciling functional ecology and taxonomy -- 9.3. NGS analysis of functional traits as biomarkers of environmental change -- 9.4. Conclusion and perspectives -- Chapter 10: Structure and Functioning of Microbial Ecosystems: Metagenomics and Integration of Omics -- 10.1. Structure of microbial communities -- 10.2. Revealing the functioning of microbial communities -- 10.3. Conclusions and perspectives -- Chapter 11: Modeling and Predicting Behaviors and Dynamics of Ecosystems -- 11.1. Intensive computation benefits the description of biodiversity with metagenomics -- 11.2. An emergent scientific domain: the ecology of systems -- 11.3. Modeling and predicting -- 11.4. Conclusion and perspectives -- Chapter 12: The Omics of the Future -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- List of Websites -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78548-146-0
Language:
English
