@article{The NIH HMP Working Group01122009,
author = {The NIH HMP Working Group and Peterson, Jane and Garges, Susan and Giovanni, Maria and McInnes, Pamela and Wang, Lu and Schloss, Jeffery A. and Bonazzi, Vivien and McEwen, Jean E. and Wetterstrand, Kris A. and Deal, Carolyn and Baker, Carl C. and Di Francesco, Valentina and Howcroft, T. Kevin and Karp, Robert W. and Lunsford, R. Dwayne and Wellington, Christopher R. and Belachew, Tsegahiwot and Wright, Michael and Giblin, Christina and David, Hagit and Mills, Melody and Salomon, Rachelle and Mullins, Christopher and Akolkar, Beena and Begg, Lisa and Davis, Cindy and Grandison, Lindsey and Humble, Michael and Khalsa, Jag and Little, A. Roger and Peavy, Hannah and Pontzer, Carol and Portnoy, Matthew and Sayre, Michael H. and Starke-Reed, Pamela and Zakhari, Samir and Read, Jennifer and Watson, Bracie and Guyer, Mark}, 
title = {The NIH Human Microbiome Project},
volume = {19}, 
number = {12}, 
pages = {2317-2323}, 
year = {2009}, 
doi = {10.1101/gr.096651.109}, 
abstract ={The Human Microbiome Project (HMP), funded as an initiative of the NIH Roadmap for Biomedical Research (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov), is a multi-component community resource. The goals of the HMP are: (1) to take advantage of new, high-throughput technologies to characterize the human microbiome more fully by studying samples from multiple body sites from each of at least 250 “normal” volunteers; (2) to determine whether there are associations between changes in the microbiome and health/disease by studying several different medical conditions; and (3) to provide both a standardized data resource and new technological approaches to enable such studies to be undertaken broadly in the scientific community. The ethical, legal, and social implications of such research are being systematically studied as well. The ultimate objective of the HMP is to demonstrate that there are opportunities to improve human health through monitoring or manipulation of the human microbiome. The history and implementation of this new program are described here.}, 
URL = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/12/2317.abstract}, 
eprint = {http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/12/2317.full.pdf+html}, 
journal = {Genome Research} 
}