"it is very timely that we should have a book dedicated to the subject area ... it provides an in-depth analysis of the state of the union and some vision of where the field is heading ... explore(s) the limits and pitfalls of modern metagenomics ... covers a wide range of areas in which metagenomics has made an impact and provides the reader with sufficient scope to see how this approach can be used. It should show any reader that the method is highly applicable to any complex microbial community for which it is either not possible or practical to access the different organisms and isolate them for further analysis." from Julian R Marchesi (Cardiff University, UK) writing in Future Microbiology (2012) 7(7): 813-814. read more ...

Metagenomics: Current Innovations and Future Trends Edited by: Diana Marco ISBN: 978-1-904455-87-5 Publisher: Caister Academic Press Publication Date: September 2011 Cover: hardback "an in-depth analysis" (Future Micro.)

Tags: Metagenomics | Communities of bacteria | Diversity | Ecology | Evolution | Microbial world | Microbial communities | Environment | Omics | Functional metagenomics | Systems biology | Bacterial genealogy | Viral metagenomics | Prokaryotic communities | Next-generation sequencing