Some considerations for analyzing biodiversity using integrative metagenomics and gene networks

Lucie Bittner (1) , Sébastien Halary (2) , Claude Payri (3) , Corinne Cruaud (4) , Bruno de Reviers (2) , Philippe Lopez (2) , Eric Bapteste (2)

1 AD2M - Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin
2 SAE - Systématique, adaptation, évolution
3 IRD [Nouvelle-Calédonie] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
4 GENOSCOPE - Genoscope - Centre national de séquençage [Evry]

Background: Improving knowledge of biodiversity will benefit conservation biology, enhance bioremediation studies, and could lead to new medical treatments. However there is no standard approach to estimate and to compare the diversity of different environments, or to study its past, and possibly, future evolution.

Domaines: Biodiversité et Ecologie; Biologie moléculaire; Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]; Réseaux moléculaires [q-bio.MN]; Bio-Informatique, Biologie Systémique [q-bio.QM]; Evolution [q-bio.PE]; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie

Lucie Bittner, Sébastien Halary, Claude Payri, Corinne Cruaud, Bruno de Reviers, et al.. Some considerations for analyzing biodiversity using integrative metagenomics and gene networks. Biology Direct, 2010, 5 (5), pp.47. ⟨10.1186/1745-6150-5-47⟩. ⟨hal-02922363⟩