-number">21.3</span> Goals of Amplicon analysis<a href="microbiome-sequencing.html#goals-of-amplicon-analysis" class="anchor-section" aria-label="Anchor link to header"></a></h2>
<p>The technologies that are enabling work in microbiome science are the same that are driving the data revolution in biology. Primarily this work is driven by high-throughput DNA sequencing, which is applied for profiling microbial community composition:</p>
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<li>marker gene profiling (such as 16S or ITS sequencing)</li>
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