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

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 .