The Broad Institute-OpenBiome Microbiome Library: A Foundation for a New Generation of Microbiome Therapeutics

Primary Researchers:

Eric Alm
Mathilde Poyet
Mathieu Groussin
Julian Avila Pacheco
Hera Vlamakis
Xiaofang Jiang
Sean Gibbons
Ramnik Xavier

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MIT, Broad Institute, and Institute for Systems Biology

Project Summary:

With $1 million funding from a BroadNext10 grant, we built our first annotated collection of gut bacterial strains isolated from healthy adults living in North America.