Is designed to be a general-use format for representing biological sample by observation contingency tables. BIOM is a recognized standard for the Earth Microbiome Project. And is a Genomics Standards Consortium. Definition of the BIOM file format. Adding metadata to BIOM files.

Developing computational methods to better understand the microbial world. The Clemente Lab is part of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences. At Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. We are broadly interested in bioinformatics and computational biology, particularly with a focus on characterizing the microbiome in human subjects and in the environment. Including a link to the application.

The Bowman Lab is located in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Our research explores many aspects of marine microbial ecology. We use sequence based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques to explore the structure and function of microbial communities, and to understand the role of microbes in the Earth system.