Climate Change (CC) is reshaping all ecosystem processes and structures. Metagenomics data can provide valuable insights into how microbial processes contribute to Climate Change, and how it, in turn, changes microbial communities. However, given the environmental genomics data deluge, locating the CC-related ones is a tedious process. The Climate Change Metagenomic Record Index (CCMRI) aims to harvest the metagenomic records pertaining to CC and provides researchers with a curated database of climate change-related metagenomic studies. It classifies these based on whether the studies relate to how CC alters microbiomes and how microbial processes affect CC, either by contributing to or preventing it. The database was constructed through manual curation of all aquatic and terrestrial studies in MGnify. To keep the curation effort scalable for the future, an automated system gathers, filters, and suggests studies for further curation. Subscribed users receive timely notifications whenever new studies pass the curation process and are published on the platform.
The CCMRI team welcomes your feedback, ideas, requests, or any bugs you may encounter. Please feel free to submit an issue through our repository or send us an email (details below in the Contact section).
Correspondence: pafilis[at]hcmr.gr; ccmri[at]hcmr.gr; Tel: +30 2810 337748
Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology & Aquaculture HCMR Thalassocosmos 71500 Gournes, Crete, Greece P.O.Box 2214, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
CCMRI has been made possible through funding from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) (grant No. 2772).
