Knight Lab

Knight Lab is a research lab located in La Jolla, California. It is a part of the University of California, San Diego. The lab employs two people and generates over $10,000 in annual revenue. The Knight Lab focuses on using computational and experimental techniques to study the evolution of biomolecules, genomes, and communities in various ecosystems, particularly the human microbiome. Their research is published in top scientific journals like Nature, Science, and Cell, and their analysis methods are widely used in the field. The lab is known for its open-access scientific model, providing free, open-source software tools and making all protocols and data publicly available. Notable projects include the American Gut Project, Earth Microbiome Project, QIIME, UniFrac, Qiita, and the BIOM standard. For more information, visit knightlab.ucsd.edu.