If you find microntology or our pre-annotated terms useful, please send praise via DM to @fullam.bsky.social and @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social

For complains, use my email.

For comments and suggestions, please look here:

github.com/grp-schmidt/...

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microntology annotations for 305k metagenomes are also available directly via Zenodo:

zenodo.org/records/1816...

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And here's a different view of the data, based on further categorization of samples. Each cell in the treemap corresponds to samples from one study.

I call this "The World according to Metagenomic Sampling Bias"

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The idea behind microntology is to slap multiple simple descriptive terms on a sample that together best describe it. Terms are introduced based on data availability.

We semi-manually annotated 305k publicly available metagenomes; n of samples per microntology term are shown in the plot.

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In a nutshell, microntology is a very straightforward and shallow system of terms that we use to describe microbial habitats and lifestyle, for example in spire.embl.de

The list of terms we use is available on Zenodo and will receive versioned updates in the future:

zenodo.org/records/1816...

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Congratulations! This seems like a really cool and unique dataset, and the findings are very interesting.

Not 100% exactly what you’re uploading, but genome assemblies can also be submitted to ENA (and will be synced to NCBI then afaik?). Or is this about creating/assigning new taxonomy IDs?

ENA exists though…? Or is that not an option due to grant or institutional constraints?