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

• Published in: Nucleic Acids Research
• Main Authors: Hunter, Sarah, Corbett, Matthew, Hubert, Denise, Fraser, Matthew, Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra, Hunter, Christopher, Jones Philip, Leinonen, Rasko, McAnulla, Craig, Maguire, Eamonn, Maslen, John, Michell, Alex, Gift, Nuka, 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: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Tundra
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7524; https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt961

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.