The Earth Microbiome Project is now available in MGnify. The Earth Microbiome Project (EMP)¹ is a wide ranging collaborative effort that attempts to characterise the taxonomic and functional diversity of microbial life on the planet. Founded in 2010, the project includes 96 different studies, comprising approximately 26k individual sequencing runs from a diverse range of biomes.

Recently, we have started collaborating with GBIF, who requested the analysis of the EMP data to increase the number of land-based taxonomic observations. We have now analysed all of the EMP microbial sequencing data and made it available through MGnify. This provides a single point of discovery and ensures that all of the data has been processed consistently with the same analysis pipeline, making it easier to compare EMP datasets to each other and to other studies in the resource. The table below lists the analysis accessions and titles for all EMP studies to help explore this highly valuable project.

1: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24621

List of EMP studies in MGnify

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Biome	Accession	Study name
	MGYS00003922	A combination of biochar-mineral complexes and compost improves soil bacterial processes, soil quality, and plant properties
	MGYS00003869	A decade of seasonal dynamics and co-occurrences within freshwater bacterioplankton communities from eutrophic Lake Mendota, WI, USA
	MGYS00003917	Agricultural intensification and the functional capacity of soil microbes on smallholder African farms - kakamenga
	MGYS00003921	Agricultural intensification and the functional capacity of soil microbes on smallholder African farms -swkenya
	MGYS00003855	Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: widespread occurrence but low diversity
	MGYS00003962	Bacterial Community Spatial and Temporal Variation in a North Temperate Bog Lake
	MGYS00003867	Bergen Ocean Acidification Mesocosms
	MGYS00003687	Biodiversity and Functional Patterns of Microbial Assemblages in Postglacial Pond Sediment Profiles
	MGYS00003806	Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin
	MGYS00003809	Bioturbating shrimp alter the structure and diversity of bacterial communities in coastal marine sediments
	MGYS00003666	Bird Egg Shells from Spain
	MGYS00003909	Brazelton LostCity chimney biofilm
	MGYS00003754	Brazilian Antarctic cleanup 16S
	MGYS00003807	Canadian MetaMicroBiome Initiative samples from
	MGYS00003708	Catchment sources of microbes
	MGYS00003780	Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 L3
	MGYS00003769	Chu Changbai mountain soil
	MGYS00003677	Continental-scale variation in seaweed host-associated bacterial communities is a function of host condition, not geography
	MGYS00002673	Convergence of gut microbiomes in myrmecophagous mammals
	MGYS00003750	Defining seasonal marine microbial community dynamics
	MGYS00003759	Distinct microbial communities associated with buried soils in the Siberian tundra.
	MGYS00003810	Diversity of carbonate deposits and basement rocks in continental and marine serpentinite seeps.
	MGYS00003800	Dominguez sleep deprived flies
	MGYS00003786	Environmental metagenomic interrogation of Thar desert microbial communities
	MGYS00003911	Ercolini whole grain feces
	MGYS00003852	Examination of Microbial Communities through a Freshwater/saltwater Transition Zone in Cenotes, Yucatan, Mexico
	MGYS00003785	Exploring links between pH and bacterial community composition in soils from the Craibstone Experimental Farm.
	MGYS00003670	Ezenwa Cape Buffalo
	MGYS00003916	Friedman Alaska peat soils
	MGYS00003681	Garcia bird gut microbiome
	MGYS00003699	Geographic distance and pH drive bacterial distribution in alkaline lake sediments across Tibetan Plateau
	MGYS00003851	Gibbons tongue river 16S
	MGYS00003957	Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample - 3 prime
	MGYS00003864	Great Lake Microbiome
	MGYS00003951	Gut microbiome of hibernating bears
	MGYS00003923	Gut microbiota of phyllostomid bats that span a breadth of diets
	MGYS00003765	Halophilic Communities as a Source for Novel Lignocellulolytic Enzymes
	MGYS00003698	Hawaii Kohala Volcanic Soils
	MGYS00003963	Influence of tillage practices on soil microbial diversity and activity in a long-term corn experimental field under continuous maize production
	MGYS00004557	Intergenerational Lizard Lounges do not Explain Variation in the Gut Microbiomes of Green Iguanas
	MGYS00003812	Jurelivicius Antarctic cleanup
	MGYS00003854	Kilauea geothermal soils and biofilms
	MGYS00003925	Knight skin biogeography comparison
	MGYS00003865	Laboratory Directed Research and Development Biological Carbon Sequestration
	MGYS00003973	Latitudinal surveys of algal-associated microorganisms
	MGYS00003691	Long Term Soil Productivity project
	MGYS00003961	Long-term seasonal development in selected lakes of Northeast Germany
	MGYS00003659	Longitudinal analysis of microbial interaction between humans and the indoor environment
	MGYS00003853	magnificent mongolian microbes
	MGYS00003918	Malaysia Lambir Soils
	MGYS00003919	Malaysia Pasoh Landuse Logged Forest
	MGYS00003868	Marine CDOM accumulation during a coastal Arctic mesocosm experiment: No response to elevated pCO2 levels
	MGYS00003913	Marine mammal skin microbiomes
	MGYS00003793	McGuire Nicaragua coffee soil
	MGYS00001524	Metagenomics reveals sediment microbial community response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill
	MGYS00003862	Microbial communities of the deep unfrozen: Do microbes in taliks increase permafrost carbon vulnerability?
	MGYS00003673	Microbial community of the bulk soil and rhizosphere of rice plants over its lifecycle
	MGYS00003937	Microbial diversity in arctic freshwaters is structured by inoculation of microbes from soils
	MGYS00003705	Microbiome of honey bees from Puerto Rico
	MGYS00003914	Mission Bay Sediment Viromes
	MGYS00002184	Moving pictures of the human microbiome
	MGYS00003861	Myrold Alder Fir
	MGYS00003688	Myrold Oregon transect
	MGYS00003813	NEON: Directions and resources for long-term monitoring in soil microbial ecology
	MGYS00003772	New Zealand Free Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment soil samples
	MGYS00003920	Panama Precip Grad Soil
	MGYS00003706	Peralta starlings
	MGYS00003866	Polluted Polar Coastal Sediments
	MGYS00003814	Prokaryote populations of extant microbialites along a depth gradient in Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada
	MGYS00003783	Protist diversity in a permanently ice-covered Antarctic Lake during the polar night transition
	MGYS00003707	Puerto Rico and Plantanal
	MGYS00003912	Recovery of biological soil crust-like microbial communities in previously submerged soils of Glen canyon
	MGYS00003773	Rees Vulcano island MedSea
	MGYS00003811	Replicating the microbial community and water quality performance of full-scale slow sand filters in laboratory-scale filters.
	MGYS00003863	Rio de Janeiro Coastline
	MGYS00003946	Seyler North Atlantic water column
	MGYS00003748	Song Colorado freshwater fish
	MGYS00003952	Song whitehead bats
	MGYS00003858	Spatial scale drives patterns in soil bacterial diversity.
	MGYS00003860	Spatial variation in arctic soil microbial communities in fire impacted permafrost ecosystems
	MGYS00003684	Spirito monensin cow hindgut
	MGYS00003870	Temple TX native exotic precip study
	MGYS00003798	The ecological dichotomy of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the hyper-arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys (NZTABS)
	MGYS00003871	The gut microbiota distinguishes GI-healthy and -unhealthy captive colobineprimates
	MGYS00003977	The gut microbiota distinguishes GI-healthy and -unhealthy captive colobineprimates - Hale folivorous primates (HiSeq)
	MGYS00003950	The gut microbiota distinguishes GI-healthy and -unhealthy captive colobineprimates - Hale folivorous primates (MiSeq)
	MGYS00003924	The oral and skin microbiomes of captive Komodo Dragons are significantly shared with their habitat.
	MGYS00003808	The role of macrobiota in structuring microbial communities along rocky shores
	MGYS00003859	Understanding Cultivar-Specificity and Soil Determinants of the Cannabis Microbiome
	MGYS00003915	Urban stress is associated with variation in microbial species composition, but not richness, in Manhattan
	MGYS00003856	Viral communities associated with algal/coral interactions
	MGYS00003857	Whole-grain wheat consumption reduces inflammation in a randomized controlled trial on overweight and obese subjects with unhealthy dietary and lifestyle behaviors: role of polyphenols bound to cereal dietary fiber