Big data from world's largest citizen science microbiome project serves food for thought

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators have published the first major results from the American Gut Project a crowdsourced, global citizen science effort. The project, described May 15 in mSystems, is the largest published study to date of the human microbiome -- the unique microbial communities that inhabit our bodies.