2024-09-12 09:32:04
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jpnn.com – A collaborative team of scientists from China, the UK and Denmark has built a comprehensive global marine microbiome database.
The database demonstrates the potential of marine microorganisms for marine science research, as well as biotechnological and biomedical applications.
The research team, led by BGI-Research, spent five years reanalyzing nearly 240 terabytes (TB) of publicly available marine metagenomic data and building a database containing 43,191 assembled genomes with metagenomes and 2.46 billion gene sequences.
More than 20,000 genomes were identified as potential new species.
The research was recently published in the journal Nature.
The database contains information on marine ecosystems from the Antarctic to the Arctic, from coastal areas to the open ocean, and from the sea surface to the hadal zone 10,000 meters deep.
“This research significantly improves our understanding of the diversity of marine microorganisms, including bacteria and marine archaea,” said Fan Guangyi, director of BGI-Research, Qingdao.
Fan added that the study had analyzed the biogeographic distribution patterns of global marine microbial communities, providing new insights into how these microorganisms are distributed across different environments.
A collaborative team of scientists from China, the UK and Denmark has built a comprehensive global marine microbiome database.
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