GENERATING MICROBIOME FINGERPRINTS, DIETARY FINGERPRINTS, AND MICROBIOME ANCESTRY

摘要

Techniques are disclosed herein for generating microbiome fingerprints, dietary fingerprints, and microbiome ancestry. Microbiome data associated with an individual is analyzed to generate a microbiome fingerprint, and a dietary fingerprint for a user. A “microbiome fingerprint” uniquely identifies the microbiome of a user at a particular point in time and is based on a combination of different profiles generated from the microbiome data. The dietary fingerprint identifies how the microbiome of a user is associated with one or more different indexes, such as a dietary index and/or a particular characteristic (e.g., a Mediterranean diet index, a vegetarian diet index, a fast food index, an internal fat index, a fat-digesting index, a carbohydrate-digesting index, a health index, a fasting index, a ketogenic index, . . . ). The microbiome data may also be utilized to determine microbiome ancestry for the user that indicates other users to which the user is related to.