The Earth Microbiome Project, an initiative with a sole
purpose that aims toward collecting natural samples and to analyze Earth’s microbial
community, conducting an interesting research concerning Earth’s multiscale
microbial diversity. Awareness of the importance of our microbial world here on
Earth is growing more and more. Thanks to coordinated protocol along with new
analytical methods concerning the microbial world, researchers at the Earth
Microbiome Project are allowed the ability to explore these microbial patterns
of community distribution. Comprised of about 100 studies, more than half
yielded peer-reviewed publications, researchers from The Earth Microbiome
Project now introduced the sampling and sequencing depth based on earlier
efforts, significant analytical tools have now been developed, thus opening the
door into broader research on distribution of the microbial community. The
Earth Microbiome Project researchers, thanks to the use of sample collecting
along with microbiome sequencing and metadata curation, researched and
performed a globalized meta-analysis of archael/bacterial communities. With
this research should come an even faster accumulation of microbiome/microbe
data.
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| Figure 1. This figure represents environment type and provenance of samples.
Thompson, L. Sanders, J. McDonald, D. et al. (2017) A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity. Nature. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature24621
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