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To get pre-calcualted MHIs of 16S rRNA sequences in 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project, please click here (4 MB).
Currently, MetaMetaDB contains 2,949,852 representative 16S rRNA sequences from 61 diverse environments. (data by November 6, 2014)
Previous data can be downloaded from the archive.
To know how the terms of environmental categories and the sequences are from, please check Q & A: Q5 and Q6.
For more details about the database, please refer to our article.
Number of representative 16S rRNA sequences in each environmental category is shown as follows.
Colors are used to present environmental category in the output. (An example is in Q & A: Q3)
Ecological metagenome | Organismal metagenome |
Color | Environment | representative 16S rRNA |
Color | Environment | representative 16S rRNA |
| activated carbon | 1,561 |
| ant | 3,325 |
| activated sludge | 28,253 |
| beetle | 2,121 |
| anaerobic digester | 7,783 |
| bovine | 6,296 |
| ant fungus garden | 11,672 |
| bovine gut | 97,809 |
| aquatic | 25,612 |
| chicken gut | 1,451 |
| beach sand | 1,235 |
| coral | 1,267 |
| biofilm | 8,015 |
| epibiont | 331 |
| bioreactor | 104,408 |
| fish | 52,185 |
| bioreactor sludge | 53,208 |
| fossil | 2,737 |
| compost | 45,528 |
| gut | 144,966 |
| food | 39,911 |
| honeybee | 23,366 |
| food fermentation | 51,571 |
| human | 85,685 |
| freshwater | 101,011 |
| human gut | 114,085 |
| freshwater sediment | 11,764 |
| human lung | 10,892 |
| groundwater | 87,679 |
| human nasal/pharyngeal | 61,794 |
| hot springs | 13,455 |
| human oral | 43,119 |
| hydrocarbon | 37,109 |
| human skin | 21,648 |
| hydrothermal vent | 4,011 |
| mosquito | 4,316 |
| hypersaline lake | 2,457 |
| mouse gut | 77,565 |
| ice | 434 |
| oral | 53 |
| indoor | 256 |
| phyllosphere | 1,513 |
| marine | 200,564 |
| pig | 16,317 |
| marine sediment | 28,417 |
| root | 3,795 |
| microbial mat | 1,688 |
| shoot | 15,429 |
| mine drainage | 632 |
| symbiont | 9,529 |
| oil production facility | 1,666 |
| termite | 1,587 |
| rhizosphere | 44,557 |
| termite gut | 621 |
| rock | 1,067 |
| wasp | 145 |
| saltern | 620 | | | |
| sediment | 77,749 | | | |
| soil | 1,141,988 | | | |
| stromatolite | 2,611 | | | |
| terrestrial | 362 | | | |
| wastewater | 7,051 | | | |
| Total | 2,145,905 | | Total | 803,947 |