American Gut Project

Managed by:
Rob Knight; Daniel McDonald
University of California San Diego

American Gut Project

Managed by:
Rob Knight; Daniel McDonald
University of California San Diego

About American Gut Project

The American Gut Project provides infrastructure for anyone in the world to process human microbiome samples. Generally, the sample we receive are poop (because that's what's sexy apparently). For every sample we receive, we perform DNA sequencing to identify the types of microbes that are present, and we generate an educational report about these findings and how you relate to others. This report is not medically actionable and is for education and research only. As researchers, we're extremely interested in these samples so we can construct a "map" of human microbial configurations to foster ongoing microbiome efforts around the world, and to help this global effort, all data we generate from this project are deposited de-identified into the public domain.

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Managed by:
Rob Knight; Daniel McDonald
University of California San Diego
Joined by: 94 members
Public data: shared by 47 members
Launched: March 23, 2015
Project website: http://americangut.org
Contact email: americangut@gmail.com
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