“In this open access paper, Rosso et al. utilized metagenomic analysis (MGA) to characterize the microbial community of an activated sludge plant experiencing a foaming incident and compared those results to a database from seven other healthy activated sludge systems,” WER Editor-in-Chief Tim Ellis said. “They were able to identify the populations potentially responsible for the upset. The authors propose that MGA can be used as a relatively inexpensive tool for characterizing microbial populations in an effort to improve wastewater treatment plant operations.”

Selected WER articles such as this one are available free to the public on a monthly basis through an open access program. In addition, authors can pay a fee to make their accepted articles open access. Click here to download “Tools for Metagenomic Analysis at Wastewater Treatment Plants: Application to a Foaming Episode” by Gretchen E. Rosso; Jeffrey A. Muday; and James F. Curran.

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