Very interesting preprint by Ran Blekhman's lab (@blekhman): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.11.560955v1 on https://microbiomap.org/ , a resource integrating 168k human gut 16S samples for a global overview. Seems similar to https://microbeatlas.org/ , which combines >2 million samples (both 16S and WGS across all habitats)

#microbiome #microbiology

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.

^bioRxiv