"This book edited by Diana Marco highlights the current state of the art of metagenomics and introduces the reader to recent advances in this field. More than twenty international experts have contributed chapters covering a very broad range of topics. The topics addressed extend from theoretical questions (such as the concepts of metagenomics, its integration with other approaches in life sciences or sequence data management) to metagenomic studies of various habitats (e.g. the human microbiome, plant-microbe interactions) and chapters with a strongly applied focus (e.g. bioremediation, biotechnology) to philosophical questions raised through the results of metagenome research. Generally, the mixture of theory/background and practice/applications is well balanced. Lucid descriptions of methodical approaches and technical details are given. Accounts of specific limitations and problems related to metagenomics in a certain area are simultaneously provided with a wealth of references for further reading ... the book can be highly recommended to advanced students or anyone starting research in this field. " from Kathleen Schleinitz (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany) writing in Biotechnol. J. (2011) 6: 124-125. read more ...

Metagenomics: Theory, Methods and Applications Edited by: Diana Marco ISBN: 978-1-904455-54-7 Publisher: Caister Academic Press Publication Date: January 2010 Cover: hardback "highly recommended" (Biotechnol. J.)