Microbial Community Database

The Microbial Community Database (MiCoDa, https://micoda.idiv.de/v2) is a searchable database that hosts over 31,000 samples of processed 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequences from aquatic, host-associated, and mineral environments, spanning the entire globe. MiCoDa is a team effort led by Dr. Stephanie Jurburg (microbial ecology). It is hosted and supported by the Integrative Biodiversity Data and Code Unit of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, the Microbial Interaction Ecology group of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research- Leipzig and the FUSION group of Friedrich Schiller Universität- Jena.
MiCoDa was designed for use by microbiome specialists and non-specialists. The ease of use encourages scientists to include bacteria in large-scale ecological syntheses, to place their novel microbiome findings within the context of extant data, to examine large-scale patterns in microbiome data, etc.