Microntology: a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe earth’s microbial habitats

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dc.contributor.authorFullam, Anthony
dc.contributor.authorPrasoodanan, P. K.Vishnu
dc.contributor.authorKuhn, Michael
dc.contributor.authorBork, Peer
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Thomas S.B.
dc.contributor.funderTaighde Éireann - Research Ireland
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-18T11:48:01Z
dc.date.available2026-08-18T11:48:01Z
dc.date.issued2026-05-27
dc.description© 2026, the Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.description.abstractMotivation: 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. en
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch Ireland|12/RC/2273_P2
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dc.identifier.articleidbtag343
dc.identifier.authororcidFullam, Anthony
dc.identifier.authororcidPrasoodanan, P. K.Vishnu
dc.identifier.authororcidKuhn, Michael
dc.identifier.authororcidBork, Peer
dc.identifier.authororcidSchmidt, Thomas S.B.§0000-0001-8587-4177
dc.identifier.citationFullam, A, Prasoodanan, P K V, Kuhn, M, Bork, P & Schmidt, T S B 2026, 'Microntology: a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe earth’s microbial habitats', Bioinformatics, vol. 42, no. 6, btag343, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag343
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/bioinformatics/btag343
dc.identifier.endpage5
dc.identifier.issn1367-4803
dc.identifier.issued6
dc.identifier.journaltitleBioinformatics
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19124
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105041646924
dc.identifier.volume42
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightscc_by
dc.subjectData-enabled studies
dc.subjectmicrobial ecology and evolution
dc.subjectMicrobial habitats and lifestyles
dc.subject[Microbiology]
dc.subject[APCMicrobiome]
dc.subjectStatistics and Probability
dc.subjectBiochemistry
dc.subjectMolecular Biology
dc.subjectComputer Science Applications
dc.subjectComputational Theory and Mathematics
dc.subjectComputational Mathematics
dc.titleMicrontology: a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe earth’s microbial habitatsen
dc.typeArticle (Peer reviewed)
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