COREMIC: a web-tool to search for a niche associated CORE MICrobiome.

ABSTRACT: Microbial diversity on earth is extraordinary, and soils alone harbor thousands of species per gram of soil. Understanding how this diversity is sorted and selected into habitat niches is a major focus of ecology and biotechnology, but remains only vaguely understood. A systems-biology approach was used to mine information from databases to show how it can be used to answer questions related to the core microbiome of habitat-microbe relationships. By making use of the burgeoning growth of information from databases, our tool "COREMIC" meets a great need in the search for understanding niche partitioning and habitat-function relationships. The work is unique, furthermore, because it provides a user-friendly statistically robust web-tool (http://coremic2.appspot.com or http://core-mic.com),

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5816963 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature