Web of microbes (WoM): a curated microbial exometabolomics database for linking chemistry and microbes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As microbiome research becomes increasingly prevalent in the fields of human health, agriculture and biotechnology, there exists a need for a resource to better link organisms and environmental chemistries. Exometabolomics experiments now provide assertions of the metabolites present within specific environments and how the production and depletion of metabolites is linked to specific microbes. This information could be broadly useful, from comparing metabolites across environments, to predicting competition and exchange of metabolites between microbes, and to designing stable microbial consortia. Here, we introduce Web of Microbes (WoM; freely available at: http://webofmicrobes.org ), the first exometabolomics data repository and visualization tool.

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SUBMITTER: Kosina SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6134592 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature