New preprint from lab: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670324v1 describing the Metalog database of manually annotated contextual data for >110k metagenomics samples around the globe https://metalog.embl.de/
See Bluesky thread for more info: https://bsky.app/profile/biocs.bsky.social/post/3lwgfkpthjs2d
The paper by @biocs has been published in the NAR Database Issue! https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1118
Visit the database itself on https://metalog.embl.de/ to access manually annotated contextual data for #microbiome samples around the globe. We're up to 1000 included studies as of today!
Even more resource papers from the group in the NAR Database Issue!
VIRE is a planetary-scale database of >1.7M viral genomes reconstructed from 100k+ metagenomes across diverse environments https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1225 , led by Suguru Nishijima. Website: https://vire.embl.de/
metaTraits: https://metatraits.embl.de/ 🦠 Interactively explore 140+ 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀, harmonized & integrated from culture-derived collections 🔬 & genome-based predictions 🧬 for >2M MAGs & genomes.
See the publication at NAR: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1241 and the BlueSky thread by @dpodlesny https://bsky.app/profile/podlesny.bsky.social/post/3m6zj2zoptc2y
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