TABLE 1.
Publicly available data from gut microbiota studies.
| Project, database, or repository name | Number of cases | Sample types | Disease related (Y/N/B) | Data availability (Y/N/Conditional) | Website |
| Human Microbiome Project (HMP1) | 300 | Nasal passages, oral cavity, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and urogenital tract | N | Y | NIH Human Microbiome Project - Home, 2019 |
| Integrative Human Microbiome Project (iHMP): pregnancy and preterm birth (MOMS-PI) | ∼2,000 | Mouth, skin, vagina, and rectum | Y | Y | NIH Human Microbiome Project - Home, 2019 |
| Integrative Human Microbiome Project (iHMP): onset of IBD (IBDMDB) | ∼90 | Stool and blood | Y | Y | NIH Human Microbiome Project - Home, 2019 |
| Integrative Human Microbiome Project (iHMP): onset of type 2 diabetes (T2D) | ∼100 | Fecal, nasal, blood, serum, and urine | Y | Y | NIH Human Microbiome Project - Home, 2019 |
| American Gut Project (AGP) | >3,000 | Stool and swabs from skin/mouth | B | Y | American Gut, 2019 |
| Personal Genome Project microbiota component (PGP) | >5,000 | Skin/oral/fecal | − | Y | Data – The Harvard Personal Genome Project (PGP), 2019 |
| TwinsUK | >11,000 | Multiple | − | C | TwinsUK, 2019 |
| Global Gut Project (GG) | 531 | Fecal | N | Y | Yatsunenko et al., 2012 |
| Project CARDIOBIOME | >4,000 | − | − | N | |
| Pediatric Metabolism and Microbiome Repository (PMMR) | ∼350 | Human microbial cell lines, stool, and/or DNA and RNA | Y | N | https://clinicaltrials.govClinicalTrials.gov, 2019 |
| Lung HIV Microbiome Project (LHMP) | 162 | Lung, nasal, and/or oropharyngeal cavities | Y | Y | BioLINCC, 2019 |
| The Study of the Impact of Long-Term Space Travel on the Astronauts’ Microbiome (Microbiome) | 9 | Saliva and gastrointestinal | N | N | NASA, 2019 |
| Michigan Microbiome Project (MMP) | − | − | − | N | The Michigan Microbiome Project, 2019 |
| uBiome | − | Gut, mouth, nose, genitals, and skin | B | C | |
| Human Oral Microbiome Database (eHOMD) | − | Upper digestive and upper respiratory tracts, oral cavity, pharynx, nasal passages, sinuses, and esophagus | − | Y | HOMD : Human Oral Microbiome Database, 2019 |
| Human Pan-Microbe Communities (HPMC) | >1,800 | Gastrointestinal | B | Y | HPMCD: Human Pan Microbial Communities Database, 2019 |
| Curated Metagenomic Data | >5,000 | Multiple | B | Y | curatedMetagenomicData, 2019 |
| European Nucleotide Archive | − | − | − | Y | European Nucleotide Archive EMBL-EBI, 2019 |
| EBI-metagenomics portal samples | >20,000 | Multiple | B | Y | EMBL-EBI Mg, 2019 |
| MG-RAST | >10,000 | Multiple | B | Y | MG-RAST, 2019 |