NMDC News and Announcements

The NMDC launched the Summer 2023 edition of The Microbiome Standard. We’ve updated the Submission Portal and NMDC EDGE and also added new samples to the Data Portal. Read more about...

Several members of the NMDC team (Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Julia Kelliher, Ingrid Ockert, and Simon Roux) recently traveled to Houston, Texas to attend ASM Microbe 2023. The city was experiencing a...

In a recent post on Nature Microbiology's Behind the Paper blog, NMDC Team Member Julia Kelliher reflects on the first year of NMDC's Ambassadors Program. Read more on their website: ...

The NMDC launched the Spring 2023 edition of The Microbiome Standard. We've released new data in the NMDC Data Portal, released on article through Nature Microbiology, and have many other highlights....

We're excited to share a number of new updates in our Spring release! Check out the newsletter to read more about: New EMP500 data on the NMDC Data Portal The...

The NMDC team shared a highlight of their activities and accomplishments in 2021 in their first Annual Report.

The NMDC launched the Winter 2022 edition of the NMDC Quarterly Newsletter. We've released 5x more data in the NMDC Data Portal, relaunched the NMDC Champions Program, and have many...

The NMDC team has been conducting user interviews and implementing new search features to meet the needs of the community. To learn more about how to navigate the Data Portal,...

    Bio-Scales Pilot Project We’re excited to announce that preliminary data for the Bio-Scales Pilot Project, led by Mitchel J. Doktycz at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is available in...

The immense growth of microbiome data has brought a new era of data-driven exploration and hypothesis generation enabled by a rapidly growing suite of transformative data science strategies. To support...

We report on discussions that took place during a workshop hosted by the NMDC on October 21-24, 2019, which brought together 50 experts to discuss how data standards are supporting...

Dr. Jenny Bratburd received her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her research focused on human gut microbiota interactions with pathogens. As a NMDC Champion, she is...

The Microbiome Centers Consortium discusses the importance of microbiome centers for overcoming future challenges and advancing the field in a Nature Microbiology commentary. The consortium emphasizes how a network of...