In shotgun metagenomics, genomes from environmental samples are analyzed without the prior isolation and cultivation of individual species; therefore, it is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities in their natural habitat, with a broad range of applications. At Novogene, our customers can rely on our expertise in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to help them explore the rich genetic repertoire of microbial communities, while also benefiting from our bioinformatics expertise to help identify the species, genes, and pathways represented in their samples. Novogene provides shotgun metagenomic sequencing service with an Illumina Novaseq platform and an assembly-first strategy. Additionally, our bioinformatics analyses provide gene predictions, functional annotations, and taxonomic annotations. Our standard analysis package includes mPATH, heatmaps, PCA, cluster analysis, and other programs, generating high-quality, publication-ready data.