Published January 6, 2026
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microntology: a controlled vocabulary to describe Earth's microbial habitats.
Authors/Creators
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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University College Cork
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APC Microbiome Institute
Description
Master files for the 'microntology': a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe Earth's microbial habitats.
This record contains the following (versioned) files:
- a human-readable tabular overview of microntology terms, one row per term
- term hierarchy and ontology info as machine-readable `owl` file
For comments and feedback, please visit https://github.com/grp-schmidt/microntology/issues
Files
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Additional details
Funding
- Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland
- APC Microbiome 12/RC/2273-P2
Software
- Repository URL
- https://github.com/grp-schmidt/microntology/
- Development Status
- Active
References
- Fullam A, V Prasoodanan PK, M Kuhn, P Bork, TSB Schmidt. microntology: a lightweight, data-driven controlled vocabulary to describe Earth's microbial habitats. bioRxiv 2026.01.12.698811; doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.12.698811