Human microbiome

Human microbiome

The Raes Lab combines large-scale, next-generation sequencing with novel computational approaches to investigate the functioning and variability of the healthy human microbiome at the systems level and study its alteration in disease.

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

We focus on the development of computational methods for the analysis of (next-generation) sequence data and the investigation of community properties from metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and meta-metabolomics data, which are applied in a wide range of environments (gut , ocean, etc.).

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Ocean microbiome

Ocean microbiome

In the framework of the Tara Oceans Project, we studied the interactions between planktonic organisms to show how important the ocean is for life on our planet

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