By Sandra Avant
Special to Poultry Times
BELTSVILLE, Md. — Less than ten years ago, the world marveled at the completion of the human genome project, which involved traditional technology to identify all the genes in a single organism- the human. Today, a more powerful technology is being used to detect thousands of organisms in an entire community.
Unlike traditional gene sequencing, the new molecular technique-metagenomics-eliminates the need cultivate and isolate individual microbial species. Scientists can apply genomic analysis to mixed communities of microbes instead of to just one organism.
For example, researchers examining viral enteric (intestinal) diseases in. . .
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