Metagenomics (Topical Term)

Work cat: Metagenomics of the human body, 2011: p. 4 (The most expensive, and yet potentially most informative method of studying microbial biodiversity is random environmental sequencing, known as metagenomics)

Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, Dec. 2004: p. 673 (Among the methods designed to gain access to the physiology and genetics of uncultured organisms, metagenomics, the genomic analysis of a population of microorganisms, has emerged as a powerful centerpiece. ... Community genomics, environmental genomics, and population genomics are synonyms for the same approach)

Nature reviews. Microbiology, June 2005: p. 459 (Genomic approaches for studying natural microbial assemblages have been variously dubbed environmental genomics, population genomics, metagenomics or ecogenomics)

Current opinion in biotechnology, June 2003: p. 303 (Metagenomics is the culture-independent genomic analysis of microbial communities. The term is derived from the statistical concept of meta-analysis (the process of statistically combining separate analyses) and genomics (the comprehensive analysis of an organism's genetic material))

Annual review of genetics, 2004: p. 525 (Metagenomics, or the culture-independent genomic analysis of an assemblage of microorganisms, has potential to answer fundamental questions in microbial ecology)