functional analysis

Question

[safeassli]

Hello community,

I really need your expertise to help me with this question :

Actually I'm wondering if it is possible to perform functional analysis on microbiome.

thanks, Safe,

[antonioggsousa]

Hi,

You can't perform functional analysis on 16S rRNA gene, but you can use the 16S rRNA genes to predict the functional potential.

Please have a look into the following Biostars post which includes some tools and the respective repos and papers: Is it possible to predict functional profile of microbiome through 16S rRNA gene amplicon-based sequences?

I hope this helps,

António

[safeassli]

thank you very much !!!