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With thousands of publicly available metagenomes, these questions should be easy to answer. However, computational barriers prevent most researchers from conducting such analyses. We address this problem with MetaQuery, a web application for rapid and quantitative analysis of specific genes in the human gut microbiome. The user inputs one or more query genes, and our software returns the estimated abundance of these genes across 1267 publicly available fecal metagenomes from American, European and Chinese individuals. In addition, our application performs downstream statistical analyses to identify features that are associated with gene variation, including other query genes (i.e. gene co-variation), taxa, clinical variables (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease and diabetes) and average genome size. The speed and accessibility of MetaQuery are a step toward democratizing metagenomics research, which should allow many researchers to query the abundance and variation of specific genes in the human gut microbiome.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: \u00a0http:\/\/metaquery.docpollard.org.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0snayfach@gmail.com<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv382","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,6,24]],"date-time":"2015-06-24T00:00:24Z","timestamp":1435104024000},"page":"3368-3370","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["MetaQuery: a web server for rapid annotation and quantitative analysis of specific genes in the human gut microbiome"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Stephen","family":"Nayfach","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology, Gladstone Institutes, and Division of Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco and"}]},{"given":"Michael A.","family":"Fischbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA"}]},{"given":"Katherine S.","family":"Pollard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology, Gladstone Institutes, and Division of Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco and"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,6,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020202330170400_btv382-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1012","DOI":"10.1096\/fj.12-220806","article-title":"The Human Microbiome Project strategy for comprehensive sampling of the human microbiome and why it matters","volume":"27","author":"Aagaard","year":"2013","journal-title":"FASEB J"},{"key":"2023020202330170400_btv382-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1002358","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1002358","article-title":"Metabolic reconstruction for metagenomic data and its application to the human microbiome","volume":"8","author":"Abubucker","year":"2012","journal-title":"PLoS Comput. 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