Earth Microbiome Project

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Earth Microbiome Project

Formation	2010
Website	https://earthmicrobiome.org/

The Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) was an initiative founded by Janet Jansson, Jack Gilbert, and Rob Knight in 2010 to collect natural samples and analyze microbial life around the globe.^[1]

The EMP set out to process up to 200,000 samples in different biomes, creating a database of microbes on Earth to characterize environments and ecosystems by microbial composition and interaction.^[2]

The EMP website has not been updated in years, and the project is believed to be closed.^[3]