Welcome to the Data Analysis and Coordination Center (DACC) for the Human Microbiome Project (HMP),
launched by the National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research, and designed to fuel research into the multitude of microbes that live in the various environments of the human body. A major goal of the HMP is to look for correlations between changes in the microbiome and human health. The HMP DACC is the central repository for all HMP data. More information about the project can be found on the NIH Roadmap site at http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp.
Focus Areas of the HMP
Single isolate sequencing of cultured & uncultured microbes collected from human body sites to facilitate phylogenetic characterization and functional annotation of metagenomic sequences...
16S RNA and whole metagenome sequencing of samples collected from 300 healthy human participants, to characterize complexity of microbial communities at individual body sites and to provide insights into functions performed by the human microbiome...
Demonstration projects to determine the relationship between human health and changes in the human microbiome through the use of 16S and whole metagenome sequencing of clinical samples of interest...
Techniques and publically available analytical tools being used by the HMP consortium...
The ethical, legal and social implications of the Human Microbiome Project...
We welcome feedback on all aspects of the HMP, and are soliciting recommendations for microbial reference genomes. Contact us for more information...