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Your gut microbiome, deconstructed

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Use of sophisticated reductionist and whole-system approaches are providing much-needed technologies to unravel the complex mélange of microbiome functions.

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Figure 1: New techniques in the functional analysis of gut bacteria.

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  1. Dylan Dodd is at the Department of Pathology and the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.,

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  2. Carolina Tropini and Justin L. Sonnenburg are at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.,

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Dodd, D., Tropini, C. & Sonnenburg, J. Your gut microbiome, deconstructed. Nat Biotechnol 33, 1238–1240 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3431

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