Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples without cultivating the microorganisms. It allows researchers to study the collective genomes of microbial communities inhabiting a particular environment and understand how they interact with each other and their surroundings. By avoiding the need for isolation and laboratory cultivation of individual microbial species, metagenomics provides a cost-effective way to characterize the genomes of uncultured microbial majority and obtain a broader perspective of the biological composition of various ecological niches.
Market Dynamics:
The global metagenomics market growth is driven by increasing R&D spending on genomics, rising prevalence of infectious diseases, and growing applications of metagenomics across various industries like healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and agriculture. However, technical challenges related to data management and analysis due to the huge amount of sequence data generated restrain the market growth. Growing food safety concerns and development of point-of-care diagnostics utilizing metagenomics provide lucrative opportunities for market players.
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