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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2015 Jun 3;241(2):387–399. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.05.035

Figure 2. Overview of culture-independent methods for microbial analysis.

Figure 2

High-throughput analysis of gastrointestinal tract microbiota via sequencing of DNA using targeted or shotgun sequencing or using other “omics” approaches. NGS, next generation sequencing; OTU, operational taxonomic units.