Very interesting preprint by Ran Blekhman's lab (@blekhman): biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20… on microbiomap.org/ , a resource integrating 168k human gut 16S samples for a global overview. Seems similar to microbeatlas.org/ , which combines >2 million samples (both 16S and WGS across all habitats)

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Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome

Understanding the factors that shape variation in the human microbiome is a major goal of research in biology.

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