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The meta‐gene catalogue of Thai gut microbiome

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meta-gene

A meta-gene catalogue of Thai gut microbiome

  • Brief Repository Description

This repository contains a meta-gene catalogue of Thai gut microbiome.

  • Abstract: The gut microbiome plays a major role in the maintenance of human health. Characterizing the taxonomy and metabolic functions of the human gut microbiome is necessary for enhancing health. Here, we analyzed the metagenomic sequencing, assembly and construction of a meta-gene catalogue of the human gut microbiome with the overall aim of investigating the taxonomy and metabolic functions of the gut microbiome in Thai adults. As a result, the integrative analysis of 16S rRNA gene and whole metagenome shotgun (WMGS) sequencing data revealed that the dominant gut bacterial families were Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae of the Firmicutes phylum. Consistently, across 3.8 million (M) genes annotated from 163.5 gigabases (Gb) of WMGS sequencing data, a significant number of genes associated with carbohydrate metabolism of the dominant bacterial families were identified. Further identification of bacterial community-wide metabolic functions promisingly highlighted the importance of Roseburia and Faecalibacterium involvement in central carbon metabolism, sugar utilization and metabolism towards butyrate biosynthesis. This work presents an initial study of shotgun metagenomics in a Thai population-based cohort in a developing Southeast Asian country.

  • KeyWords: gut microbiome, Thai adults, whole metagenome shotgun (WMGS) sequencing, meta-gene catalogue, metabolic functions

  • Reference: Raethong, N.; Nakphaichit, M.; Suratannon, N.; Sathitkowitchai, W.; Weerapakorn, W.; Keawsompong, S.; Vongsangnak, W. Analysis of Human Gut Microbiome: Taxonomy and Metabolic Functions in Thai Adults. Genes 2021, 12, 331. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12030331.

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  • BioProject ID: PRJNA637175

  • Last update: 2021-03-01

file format type num_seqs sum_len min_len avg_len max_len FTP
meta-gene.fna FASTA DNA 3,846,814 3,146,046,237 102 817.8 88,230 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QhsNAwEze2znWp5gGQN_moiLoxKGDvve/view?usp=sharing
meta-gene.faa FASTA Protein 3,846,814 1,046,887,105 33 272.1 29,409 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RxakOlTiQhxgQ9BAofyMH3hlmmy3s1nP/view?usp=sharing

This repository is administered by Nachon Raethong (@sysbiomics), Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

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