GlobalFungi

GlobalFungi provides access to and enables analysis of high-throughput sequencing data of fungal communities across terrestrial biomes for ecological, biogeographical, and taxonomic research.

Key Features:

• Extensive Database: Hosts over 600 million observations of fungal sequences from more than 17,000 samples representing soil and plant-associated habitats.
• Geographical and Metadata Integration: Each sample is geographically tagged and linked to extensive metadata compiled from 178 original studies.
• Sequence Data: Contains millions of unique nucleotide sequence variants targeting the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2 regions for high-resolution fungal taxonomic assignment.
• Validated Compilation: Data were collected from and validated against published studies of soil fungal community compositions.

Scientific Applications:

• Fungal Biogeography: Enables analysis of geographic distribution patterns of fungi across terrestrial biomes using geographically tagged samples.
• Taxonomic Profiling: Supports identification and distribution analysis of fungal taxa using ITS1 and ITS2 sequence variants.
• Ecosystem Process Studies: Facilitates investigation of fungal roles in carbon cycling, decomposition, plant symbioses, and pathogenic interactions.
• Biodiversity and Community Ecology: Allows assessment of fungal biodiversity and community composition across environmental gradients.

Methodology:

Collected and validated published soil fungal community composition data from terrestrial environments, with sequences focused on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2 regions for taxonomic resolution.