Planet Microbe

Planet Microbe integrates metagenomic and other 'omics datasets with environmental and physicochemical measurements to enable contextualized analysis of marine microbial communities.

Key Features:

• Data Integration: Links metagenomic samples with corresponding biological, environmental, and physicochemical measurements collected from the same water samples or sampling events.
• Curated Data Access: Aggregates curated metagenomic and 'omics datasets from historical and ongoing oceanographic sequencing efforts for scientific rigor and relevance.
• Interdisciplinary Data Linking: Bridges genomic and 'omics data with physical, geological, and geochemical information to provide comprehensive environmental context.

Scientific Applications:

• Microbial ecology: Enables analysis of marine microbial community composition and interactions within environmental contexts provided by linked 'omics and physicochemical data.
• Biogeochemical cycle studies: Supports investigation of microbial roles in biogeochemical cycles by connecting genomic signals to environmental and chemical measurements.
• Environmental change impact assessment: Facilitates evaluation of how environmental changes influence oceanic microbial communities by comparing linked datasets across space and time.

Methodology:

Curates and aggregates diverse oceanographic datasets and links each 'omics sample with associated physicochemical measurements.