Description:The Healthy Human Subjects project is part of phase 1 of the Human Micrbiome Project and involved characterization of the normal microbiota from 300 healthy adults. It entailed sampling from 18 body sites in women and 15 in men (excluding three vaginal sites) distributed among five major body areas. The samples were subjected to 454 pyrosequencing for 16S rRNA gene analysis to characterize the complexity of microbial communities. For a subset of the samples, Illumina whole metagenome sequencing was done for taxonomic profiling, metabolic profiling, gene finding, and gene annotation. Numerous additional analyses were performed on the data.
Abbreviation:HHS