| Abstract: | Microbes are vital to the earth because of their enormous numbers and instinct function maintaining the natural balance. Since
the microbiology was applied in environmental science and engineering more than a century ago, researchers desire for more
and more information concerning the microbial spatio-temporal variations in almost every fields from contaminated soil to
wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). For the past 30 years, molecular biologic techniques explored for environmental microbial
community (EMC) have spanned a broad range of approaches to facilitate the researches with the assistance of computer science:
faster, more accurate and more sensitive. In this feature article, we outlined several current and emerging molecular biologic
techniques applied in detection of EMC, and presented and assessed in detail the application of three promising tools. |
