Table 1.

Comparison of MicroEXPERT with other web‐based tools. The URL for each tool is given below the table.

Platform	Data management			Data analysis			Metagenome‐wide association study
	User registration	Raw data upload	Data searcha	Raw data process	Result visualizationb	Mining Toolsc	Online categorization	Online visualization	Result download	Code avaliable
MicroEXPERT	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
MicrobiomeAnalyst2	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Qiita	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Mgnify	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
CoMet2	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No

MicrobiomeAnalyst2: www.microbiomeanalyst.ca.

Qiita: qiita.ucsd.edu.

Mgnify: www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics.

CoMet2: comet2.gobics.de.

^a Data search means the tools or database for sequences search.

^b Result Visualization means the analysis result could be online visible.

^c Mining tools means the online server for sequence searching, species identification, and so on.