microntology : a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe Earth’s microbial habitats

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Abstract
Abstract Motivation Data-enabled studies of microbial ecology and evolution depend on high-quality descriptions of microbial habitats, based on curated and consolidated vocabularies. Results We introduce microntology v1.0, a pragmatic controlled vocabulary of 148 terms to describe microbial habitats and lifestyles, and provide manually curated microntology annotations for >300k metagenomic samples from public repositories. Availability microntology controlled vocabulary terms and term hierarchies (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.19730167), and curated annotations for 305,626 metagenomic samples (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18164252) are available via Zenodo and spire.embl.de/downloads. Underlying code is available via github.com/grp-schmidt/microntology and Zenodo (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20323497). User feedback, suggestions and bug reports are welcome at github.com/grp-schmidt/microntology/issues. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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Authors Anthony Fullam, Vishnu Prasoodanan PK, Michael Kuhn, P BORK, Thomas S B Schmidt
Journal BMC Bioinformatics
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btag343
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https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag343
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