The African Human Microbiome Portal: a public web portal of curated metagenomic metadata.

ABSTRACT: There is growing evidence that comprehensive and harmonized metadata are fundamental for effective public data reusability. However, it is often challenging to extract accurate metadata from public repositories. Of particular concern is the metagenomic data related to African individuals, which often omit important information about the particular features of these populations. As part of a collaborative consortium, H3ABioNet, we created a web portal, namely the African Human Microbiome Portal (AHMP), exclusively dedicated to metadata related to African human microbiome samples. Metadata were collected from various public repositories prior to cleaning, curation and harmonization according to a pre-established guideline and using ontology terms. These metadata sets can be accessed at https

SUBMITTER: Kiran A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10782148 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature