microntology: a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe Earth’s microbial habitats

2026 · doi:10.64898/2026.01.12.698811
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Abstract Summary 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. Data Availability microntology controlled vocabulary terms and term hierarchies 1, and curated annotations for 305,626 metagenomic samples 2 are available via Zenodo and as supplemental tables S1 and S2. User feedback, suggestions and bug reports are welcome under https://github.com/grp-schmidt/microntology/issues. Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Footnotes ↵1 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra, accessed Dec 16th 2025; query (“metagenomic”[Source]) AND “amplicon”[Strategy] ↵2 query (“metagenomic”[Source]) AND “wgs”[Strategy]

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