EBI metagenomics - a new resource for the analysis and archiving of metagenomic data

• Published in: Nucleic Acids Research
• Main Authors: Hunter, Sarah, Corbett, Matthew, Denise, Hubert, Fraser, Matthew, Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra, Hunter, Christopher, Jones, Philip, Leinonen, Rasko, McAnulla, Craig, Maguire, Eamonn, Maslen, John, Mitchell, Alex, Nuka, Gift, Oisel, Arnaud, Pesseat, Sebastien, Radhakrishnan, Rajesh, Rocca-Serra, Philippe, Scheremetjew, Maxim, Sterk, Peter, Vaughan, Daniel, Cochrane, Guy, Field, Dawn, Sansone, Susanna-Assunta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2014
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Tundra
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509540/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509540/1/N509540JA.pdf; http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/D1/D600.full.pdf+html

Metagenomics is a relatively recently established but rapidly expanding field that uses high-throughput next-generation sequencing technologies to characterize the microbial communities inhabiting different ecosystems (including oceans, lakes, soil, tundra, plants and body sites). Metagenomics brings with it a number of challenges, including the management, analysis, storage and sharing of data. In response to these challenges, we have developed a new metagenomics resource (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/) that allows users to easily submit raw nucleotide reads for functional and taxonomic analysis by a state-of-the-art pipeline, and have them automatically stored (together with descriptive, standards-compliant metadata) in the European Nucleotide Archive.