MetaHIT is a project financed by the European Commission under the 7th FP program. The central objective of this project is to establish associations between the genes of the human intestinal microbiota and our health and disease.

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MetaHIT is a project financed by the European Commission under the 7th FP program. The consortium gathers 13 partners from academia and industry, a total of 8 countries.

Metagenomics can study the samples directly from environment, such as human gut, soil etc. With the development of sequencing technology, we can now use deep sequencing to analyze the microbial composition of a complex sample community. In this project, BGI will develop bioinformatics tools to assemble, annotate and interpret the function and diversity of microbial genes present in the human intestine.

Related publications

Junjie Qin, Ruiqiang Li, Jeroen Raes, et al.A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing.Nature. 2010 March 4; 464(7285):59-65.

Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Jeroen Raes, Eric Pelletier … Junjie Qin, JunWang … et al. Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome. nature 473:174–180.

Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract (MetHIT)