Microbiomics

• Provides an integrated approach for realizing the potential of microbiomics across the life, environmental, food and agricultural sciences
• Includes thorough analysis of human, environmental, viral and mycetol microbiomes, as well as methods and technology for identifying microbiotes
• Features chapter contributions from international leaders in microbiomic methods, technology and applications

1. Introduction: The Microbiome as a Concept: Vogue or Necessity?

Part I. Classes and Kinds of Microbiomes
2. Bacteriome and Archaeome: The Core Family under the Microbiomic Roof
3. Myc(et)obiome: The Big Uncle in the Family
4. Virome: The Prodigious Little Cousin of the Family

Part II. The Study of Microbiotes and Microbiomes
5. Identifying Microbiotes: Genomic, Mass-Spectrometric and Serodiagnostic Approaches
6. Panmicrobial Microarrays
7. Metagenomics in Microbiomic Studies
8. Culturomics: The Alternative from the Pas
9. NGS: The Enabler and the Way Ahead

Part III. Novel and Legacy Fields of Microbial Applications
10. A Prerequisite for Health I: Cancer Microbioma-tics?
11. A Prerequisite for Health II: Probiotics
12. Microbiomic Prospects in Fermented Food and Beverage Technology
13. Legacy and Innovative Treatment: Projected Modalities for Antimicrobial Intervention
14. Electromagnetism and the Microbiome(s)
15. Microbiomics: A Focal Point in GCBR and Biosecurity
16. Epilogue