Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2020 Jan 8;48(D1):D570-D578.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz1035.

MGnify: the microbiome analysis resource in 2020

Alex L Mitchell  1 , Alexandre Almeida  1   2 , Martin Beracochea  1 , Miguel Boland  1 , Josephine Burgin  1 , Guy Cochrane  1 , Michael R Crusoe  3 , Varsha Kale  1 , Simon C Potter  1 , Lorna J Richardson  1 , Ekaterina Sakharova  1 , Maxim Scheremetjew  1 , Anton Korobeynikov  4 , Alex Shlemov  4 , Olga Kunyavskaya  4 , Alla Lapidus  4 , Robert D Finn  1
Affiliations

MGnify: the microbiome analysis resource in 2020

Alex L Mitchell et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

MGnify (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics) provides a free to use platform for the assembly, analysis and archiving of microbiome data derived from sequencing microbial populations that are present in particular environments. Over the past 2 years, MGnify (formerly EBI Metagenomics) has more than doubled the number of publicly available analysed datasets held within the resource. Recently, an updated approach to data analysis has been unveiled (version 5.0), replacing the previous single pipeline with multiple analysis pipelines that are tailored according to the input data, and that are formally described using the Common Workflow Language, enabling greater provenance, reusability, and reproducibility. MGnify's new analysis pipelines offer additional approaches for taxonomic assertions based on ribosomal internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1/2) and expanded protein functional annotations. Biochemical pathways and systems predictions have also been added for assembled contigs. MGnify's growing focus on the assembly of metagenomic data has also seen the number of datasets it has assembled and analysed increase six-fold. The non-redundant protein database constructed from the proteins encoded by these assemblies now exceeds 1 billion sequences. Meanwhile, a newly developed contig viewer provides fine-grained visualisation of the assembled contigs and their enriched annotations.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Krona plots showing ITS-based taxonomic analysis results for sequencing run ERR2237853 from agricultural soil. Panel A shows the analysis results obtained using the UNITE database and B shows those produced with ITSoneDB. These plots are integrated into the taxonomy tab within the analysis results section, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/analyses/MGYA00383253#taxonomic.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Screenshot showing the percentage completion for a series of KEGG pathways based on the presence of KEGG orthologues, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/analyses/MGYA00383254#path-systems.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The MGnify contig viewer allows visualization of functional annotation of contigs, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/analyses/MGYA00383254#contigs-viewer. In this particular view, the contig ERZ477576.854-NODE-854-length-9986-cov-4.0004:1-9986 has been selected and the proteins coloured according to the COG category, with the four cytochrome c subunits highlighted.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Liu J., Zheng Y., Lin H., Wang X., Li M., Liu Y., Yu M., Zhao M., Pedentchouk N., Lea-Smith D.J. et al. .. Proliferation of hydrocarbon-degrading microbes at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Microbiome. 2019; 7:47–13. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Overholt W.A., Schwing P., Raz K.M., Hastings D., Hollander D.J., Kostka J.E.. The core seafloor microbiome in the Gulf of Mexico is remarkably consistent and shows evidence of recovery from disturbance caused by major oil spills. Environ. Microbiol. 2019; doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14794. - PubMed
    1. Wang S., Yu M., Wei J., Huang M., Shi X., Chen H.. Microbial community composition and diversity in the Indian Ocean deep sea REY-rich muds. PLoS One. 2018; 13:e0208230. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Simon C., Wiezer A., Strittmatter A.W., Daniel R.. Phylogenetic diversity and metabolic potential revealed in a glacier ice metagenome. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2009; 75:7519–7526. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Kumar S., Suyal D.C., Yadav A., Shouche Y., Goel R.. Microbial diversity and soil physiochemical characteristic of higher altitude. PLoS One. 2019; 14:e0213844. - PMC - PubMed

Publication types

Substances