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

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 bring...

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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: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Subjects:
IV. Viruses
bacteria
protozoa and fungi
Tundra
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3965009
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24165880
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt961
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Summary: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.

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