Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

Abstract Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global
biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs …

Our growing awareness of the microbial world's importance and diversity contrasts starkly
with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA …

Metagenomes encode an enormous diversity of proteins, reflecting a multiplicity of functions
and activities,. Exploration of this vast sequence space has been limited to a comparative …

QIIME 2 is a completely re‐engineered microbiome bioinformatics platform based on the
popular QIIME platform, which it has replaced. QIIME 2 facilitates comprehensive and fully …

Meta'omic data on microbial diversity and function accrue exponentially in public
repositories, but derived information is often siloed according to data type, study or sampled …

The construction of high capacity data sharing networks to support increasing government
and commercial data exchange has highlighted a key roadblock: the content of existing …

The interpretation of genomic, transcriptomic and other microbial 'omics data is highly
dependent on the availability of well-annotated genomes. As the number of publicly …

Autonomous platforms already make observations over a wide range of temporal and spatial
scales, measuring salinity, temperature, nitrate, pressure, oxygen, biomass, and many other …

RNA sequencing approaches, including metagenomics, has led to the discovery of a
multitude of uncultivated virus genome sequences 1–12. These sequences improve our …