Data Mining The Microbiome Toward A Cure For Inflammatory Disease

DNA sequencing has been an area of focus of many of the biggest brains in science for multiple decades. The National Institutes of Health, among others, invested billions of dollars in this area of scientific discovery. As a result, DNA, sometimes referred to as the first genome, has become less mysterious and better understood. The importance of the second genome, which is the bacteria that each of us has throughout our bodies is less well publicized, but a growing number of companies have chosen this as a domain of focus as the impact of the microbiome (the term that describes the trillions of bacteria each of us has in and on our bodies) on our health becomes clearer.