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Microbiome analysis of environmental samples may represent the next frontier in environmental microbial forensics. The microbiome, defined as the sum total of all the genetic material present in a sample, contains evidence of the microbial communities in the sample at the time of collection. As such, it contains clues to past environmental events until the time the sample was collected and processed. This attribute makes the analysis of microbiomes extremely important in identifying and demonstrating the occurrence of an environmental event, be it bioterrorism or a petroleum spill.