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. 2020 Jul 13;7(1):228.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-0567-7.

GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies

Tomáš Větrovský #  1 , Daniel Morais #  1 , Petr Kohout #  1 , Clémentine Lepinay #  1 , Camelia Algora  1 , Sandra Awokunle Hollá  1 , Barbara Doreen Bahnmann  1 , Květa Bílohnědá  1 , Vendula Brabcová  1 , Federica D'Alò  2 , Zander Rainier Human  1 , Mayuko Jomura  3 , Miroslav Kolařík  1 , Jana Kvasničková  1 , Salvador Lladó  1 , Rubén López-Mondéjar  1 , Tijana Martinović  1 , Tereza Mašínová  1 , Lenka Meszárošová  1 , Lenka Michalčíková  1 , Tereza Michalová  1 , Sunil Mundra  4   5 , Diana Navrátilová  1 , Iñaki Odriozola  1 , Sarah Piché-Choquette  1 , Martina Štursová  1 , Karel Švec  1 , Vojtěch Tláskal  1 , Michaela Urbanová  1 , Lukáš Vlk  1 , Jana Voříšková  1 , Lucia Žifčáková  1 , Petr Baldrian  6
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GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies

Tomáš Větrovský et al. Sci Data. .

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  • Author Correction: GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies.
    Větrovský T, Morais D, Kohout P, Lepinay C, Algora C, Awokunle Hollá S, Bahnmann BD, Bílohnědá K, Brabcová V, D'Alò F, Human ZR, Jomura M, Kolařík M, Kvasničková J, Lladó S, López-Mondéjar R, Martinović T, Mašínová T, Meszárošová L, Michalčíková L, Michalová T, Mundra S, Navrátilová D, Odriozola I, Piché-Choquette S, Štursová M, Švec K, Tláskal V, Urbanová M, Vlk L, Voříšková J, Žifčáková L, Baldrian P. Větrovský T, et al. Sci Data. 2020 Sep 15;7(1):308. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-00647-3. Sci Data. 2020. PMID: 32934218 Free PMC article.

Abstract

Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition, symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high importance of fungi in ecosystem processes contrasts with the incompleteness of our understanding of the patterns of fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. To reduce this gap of knowledge, we collected and validated data published on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface at https://globalfungi.com . The GlobalFungi database contains over 600 million observations of fungal sequences across > 17 000 samples with geographical locations and additional metadata contained in 178 original studies with millions of unique nucleotide sequences (sequence variants) of the fungal internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2 representing fungal species and genera. The study represents the most comprehensive atlas of global fungal distribution, and it is framed in such a way that third-party data addition is possible.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Map of locations of samples contained in the GlobalFungi database. Each point represents one or several samples where fungal community composition was reported using high-throughput-sequencing methods targeting the ITS1 or ITS2 marker of fungi. The map was created using the ‘leaflet’ package that uses an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps (Leaflet 1.6.0, GNU General Public License).
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Fig. 2
Processing of raw sequencing data for the GlobalFungi database. Workflow of processing of sequencing data included in the GlobalFungi database.
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
User interface to access the GlobalFungi database.
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