On May 22, 2013, a research team at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they had sequenced the DNA of fungi at skin sites of healthy adults to define the normal populations across the skin and to provide a framework for investigating fungal skin conditions.

The research team from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Cancer Institute extended their genome sequencing study of skin bacteria, using DNA sequencing techniques optimized for identifying fungi. The study was published in Nature.