African Human Microbiome Portal

The African Human Microbiome Portal curates and provides harmonized metagenomic metadata related to African human microbiome samples to facilitate data reusability and access to relevant studies.

Key Features:

• Metadata Curation: Metadata are collected from various public repositories prior to cleaning, curation, and harmonization according to a pre-established guideline and using ontology terms.
• Search and Retrieval: The portal supports metadata search and retrieve operations for accessing relevant studies linked to the African human microbiome.
• Interactive Visualization: The portal provides interactive visualization of 14,889 records from 70 bioprojects associated with 72 peer-reviewed research articles.
• Filtered Download: Users can download harmonized metadata according to applied filters.

Scientific Applications:

• African Microbiome Research: The portal facilitates access to metagenomic studies specifically related to African populations, addressing gaps where important population-specific information is often omitted from public repositories.
• Data Reusability: Comprehensive and harmonized metadata enable effective public data reusability for downstream metagenomic analyses.

Methodology:

Metadata are collected from various public repositories, then subjected to cleaning, curation, and harmonization according to a pre-established guideline using ontology terms.