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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2014 Feb 19;146(6):1489–1499. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2014.02.009

Figure 2. A multifaceted approach to study the role of the microbiome in IBD.

Figure 2

Future microbiome studies in the context of disease will shift towards multi-omics approaches in order to study host-microbe relations more comprehensively. Optimized sample collection, detailed clinical annotation, and sample processing will be key to expand data generation far beyond the typical marker gene and shotgun sequencing approaches. A number of assays on the host side (red) and microbial end (blue) will gain increasing attention going forward.