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MarineMetagenomeDB: a public repository for curated and standardized metadata for marine metagenomes

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Nata’ala,  Muhammad Kabiru
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Avila Santos,  Anderson P.
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Coelho Kasmanas,  Jonas
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Bartholomäus,  Alexander
3.7 Geomicrobiology, 3.0 Geochemistry, Departments, GFZ Publication Database, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum;

Saraiva,  João Pedro
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Godinho Silva,  Sandra
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Keller-Costa,  Tina
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Costa,  Rodrigo
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Gomes,  Newton C. M.
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Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho,  André Carlos
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Stadler,  Peter F.
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Sipoli Sanches,  Danilo
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Nunes da Rocha,  Ulisses
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Nata’ala, M. K., Avila Santos, A. P., Coelho Kasmanas, J., Bartholomäus, A., Saraiva, J. P., Godinho Silva, S., Keller-Costa, T., Costa, R., Gomes, N. C. M., Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, A. C., Stadler, P. F., Sipoli Sanches, D., Nunes da Rocha, U. (2022): MarineMetagenomeDB: a public repository for curated and standardized metadata for marine metagenomes. - Environmental Microbiome, 17, 57.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00449-7


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5014073
Abstract
Metagenomics is an expanding field within microbial ecology, microbiology, and related disciplines. The number of metagenomes deposited in major public repositories such as Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and Metagenomic Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology (MG-RAST) is rising exponentially. However, data mining and interpretation can be challenging due to mis-annotated and misleading metadata entries. In this study, we describe the Marine Metagenome Metadata Database (MarineMetagenomeDB) to help researchers identify marine metagenomes of interest for re-analysis and meta-analysis. To this end, we have manually curated the associated metadata of several thousands of microbial metagenomes currently deposited at SRA and MG-RAST.