MGnify Genomes: A Resource for Biome-specific Microbial Genome Catalogues.

ABSTRACT: An increasingly common output arising from the analysis of shotgun metagenomic datasets is the generation of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), with tens of thousands of MAGs now described in the literature. However, the discovery and comparison of these MAG collections is hampered by the lack of uniformity in their generation, annotation and storage. To address this, we have developed MGnify Genomes, a growing collection of biome-specific non-redundant microbial genome catalogues generated using MAGs and publicly available isolate genomes. Genomes within a biome-specific catalogue are organised into species clusters. For species that contain multiple conspecific genomes, the highest quality genome is selected as the representative, always prioritising an isolate genome over a MAG. The s

SUBMITTER: Gurbich TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318097 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature