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Earth Microbiome Project

Formation	2010
Website	earthmicrobiome.org

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

^ Gilbert, J.A.; Jansson, J. K.; Knight, R. (2014). "The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations". BMC Biology. 12 (1): 69. doi:10.1186/s12915-014-0069-1. PMC 4141107. PMID 25184604.
^ Gilbert, J. A.; O'Dor, R.; King, N.; Vogel, T. M. (2011). "The importance of metagenomic surveys to microbial ecology: Or why Darwin would have been a metagenomic scientist". Microbial Informatics and Experimentation. 1 (1): 5. doi:10.1186/2042-5783-1-5. PMC 3348666. PMID 22587826.
^ "Home". Earth Microbiome Project. 11 July 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.