SUPR
Global microbiome analyses
Dnr:

NAISS 2024/23-452

Type:

NAISS Small Storage

Principal Investigator:

Eran Elhaik

Affiliation:

Lunds universitet

Start Date:

2024-08-29

End Date:

2025-09-01

Primary Classification:

10203: Bioinformatics (Computational Biology) (applications to be 10610)

Webpage:

Allocation

Abstract

Predicting geographical sites using microbiome data has been envisioned by scientists for decades but has been hampered by the lack of data and ignorance about the forces governing biodiversity. Over the past decade, next-generation sequencing data generated by large microbiome projects showed that taxa exhibit non-uniform patchy geographical distribution and that taxa can be classified into cities with high accuracy. We develop tools that identify and map microbiome throughout the world. This requires comparing our reference data to large microbiome datasets, which requires high computing time and storage.