Program Snapshot
The Common Fund's Human Microbiome Project (HMP) aims to characterize the microbial communities found at several different sites on the human body, including nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and urogenital tract, and to analyze the role of these microbes in human health and disease. HMP includes the following initiatives.
Program Highlights
NIH Human Microbiome Project Completes Seminal Study of Microbial Diversity in Healthy Volunteers
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New Funding Opportunity Announcement!
The HMP is now seeking applications for: Evaluation of Multi-‘omic Data in Understanding the Human Microbiome’s Role in Health and Disease. Please see the full details here.
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Researchers in the HMP are sampling and analyzing the genome of microbes from five sites on the human body: nasal passages, oral cavities, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and urogenital tract. |
Access the HMP data:
View the genomes of 100s of HMP reference strains in Gen Bank: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/28331
Order an HMP reference strain:http://www.beiresources.org/
View the HMP BioProjects page at NCBI with sequence and phenotype data: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomeprj/43021