
NMDC team at the 2022 DOE Genomic Sciences Program Annual PI Meeting
The NMDC team shared a number of updates at the 2022 Department of Energy Genomic Sciences Program Annual Principal Investigator's Meeting, which took place on February 28 - March 2,...

NMDC community survey poster presentation at the Genome Sciences Program PI meeting
Pajau Vangay presented preliminary results from the NMDC community survey, which was conducted from December 2020 to January 2021 and aimed to understand how the microbiome research community is working...

NMDC poster presentation on standardized workflows at the Genome Sciences Program PI meeting
Bin Hu presented a poster on recent developments of the NMDC standardized workflows. These workflows are packaged as software containers and documented to enable researchers to install and run workflows...

NMDC metadata standards poster presentation at the Genome Sciences PI meeting
William Duncan presented a poster on the NMDC efforts to link standards and systems from the Genomic Standards Consortium Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS), Environmental Ontology (EnvO), and...

Launching the NMDC Newsletter
The NMDC team is excited to announce the launch of the NMDC newsletter! We have a lot of exciting announcements, including a recent publication and the official launch of the...

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh presents on the NMDC project at the Genome Sciences Program PI meeting
NMDC Project Lead, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, and members of the leadership team shared exciting progress updates on the project in a joint presentation at the virtual GSP meeting on February 24,...

mSystems publication on microbiome metadata standards
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...

NMDC Community Survey
The NMDC has launched a community survey to understand how members of the microbiome research community work with microbiome data. The collected feedback will be used to guide the iterative...

Tri-institutional Partnership in Microbiome Research
A unique aspect of the Tri-institutional Partnership in Microbiome Research is its data-driven focus and data infrastructure, brought through the participation of the Berkeley Lab-led National Microbiome Data Collaborative. With...

Nature Reviews Microbiology Comment
Nature Reviews Microbiology Comment announces the NMDC pilot project, currently funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program. The NMDC seeks to address fundamental...

Introduction to Metadata and Ontologies
Want to know more about metadata, including What are metadata? and What kinds of metadata are there? Check out our new post on Introduction to Metadata and Ontologies: Everything You...

A Community-Driven Data Science System to Advance Microbiome Research
The National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), a new initiative aimed at empowering microbiome research, is gearing up its pilot phase after receiving $10 million from the U.S. Department of...

We're excited to share a number of new updates in our Spring release! Check out...
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