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SPIRE

The microbial world at your fingertips.

Searchable Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource: a one stop shop for microbial data, integrated and consistently processed across habitats and phylogeny, at global scales.

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SPIRE holds data derived from ~100k metagenomic samples in 739 studies encompassing ~500Tbp of publicly available raw metagenomes. It holds five main data types: manually curated contextual data, including annotations against a custom microntology

~16Tbp worth of metagenomic assemblies (contigs) ~35 billion metagenomic open reading frames (ORFs) called from these contigs, functionally annotated in various ways 1.16 million metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of medium or high quality, co-clustered with isolate genomes into ~120 thousand species-level clusters a custom mOTU database mOTUs to allow taxonomic profiling against these species-level clusters. The aim of SPIRE is to provide an integrated view of microbial diversity at various taxonomic granularities, at genome and at gene level, across known microbial habitats.

What does SPIRE offer?

> 1 Million MAGs
> 700 Studies
> 35 Billion Genes
> 100 Counties