Robert Finn - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), UK
Providing a hub for the discovery of microbiome data: challenges, successes and future directions
The MGnify resource contains one of the largest public collections of assembled metagenomes, which have been used to derive billions of proteins. More recently, MGnify has also started to produce biome-specific catalogues of metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs), derived from the aforementioned assemblies and community contributions. Collectively, these MAGs are providing new insights into the microbial diversity found in a range of environments, or associated with different hosts, such as humans.
Here I will present the efforts we have made to ensure that the provenance of all data products can be traced, some of the technical developments and issues faced when trying to make services available to the community. In particular, I will highlight how the interactions with ELIXIR through the Microbiome Community have influenced some of our decisions. Finally, I will present some thoughts on the future data landscape of the field and role of MGnify, ELIXIR and wider scientific community.
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