Program Snapshot
The Common Fund's Human Microbiome Project (HMP) aims to characterize the microbial communities found at several different sites on the human body, including nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and urogenital tract, and to analyze the role of these microbes in human health and disease. HMP includes the following initiatives.
- Development of a reference set of microbial genome sequences and preliminary characterization of the human microbiome
- Elucidation of the relationship between disease and changes in the human microbiome
- Development of new technologies for computational analysis
- Development of new tools for computational analysis
- Establishment of a data analysis and coordinating center (DACC)
- Establishment of resource repositories
- Examination of the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of HMP research
- Evaluation of Multi-‘omic Data in Understanding the Human Microbiome’s Role in Health and Disease
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Program Highlights
New Findings Lead Scientists to a Better Understanding of an Elusive Microbe and Oral Health
A team of scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) funded by the NIH Common Fund Human Microbiome Project (HMP) have made new discoveries about a microbe that is important in human oral health. Using cutting-edge technology, the team was able to complete full sequencing of the genome from a single cell.
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NIH Human Microbiome Project Completes Seminal Study of Microbial Diversity in Healthy Volunteers
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Listen to the BBC Frontiers radio program, 'Human Microbes', featuring HMP researchers as they talk about the research and its potential impact on understanding how microbes affect health and disease.
The Human Microbiome (HMP) Strain Repository at BEI resources (managed by the ATCC) currently houses 100 top priority strains available for immediate delivery to researchers and over 400 archived strains. Additionally, 300 strains are in production. There is no cost for the strains or shipping and handling costs associated with requests.
- To view the BEI HMP homepage, click here .
- To view the Human Microbiome Project materials available through BEI Resources, click here.
- To view the Human Microbiome Project materials coming soon to BEI Resources, click here.
- For information on Depositing Reagents for the Human Microbiome Project, click here.
- For information on Registering to receive Human Microbiome Reagents, click here.
- For information on Requesting Reagents from the Human Microbiome Project, click here.
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 Researchers in the HMP are sampling and analyzing the genome of microbes from five sites on the human body: nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and urogenital tract. |
Access the HMP data:
View the genomes of 100s of HMP reference strains in Gen Bank: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/28331
Order an HMP reference strain:http://www.beiresources.org/
View the HMP BioProjects page at NCBI with sequence and phenotype data: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomeprj/43021
Visit the HMP Data Analysis and Coordination Center (DACC) site:
http://www.hmpdacc.org
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