A unified sequence catalogue of over 280,000 genomes obtained from the human gut microbiome
By
Christine Moissl-Eichinger,
Stephen Nayfach,
Miguel Boland,
Francesco Strozzi,
Martin Beracochea,
Zhou Jason Shi,
Katherine Pollard,
Donovan H Parks,
Philip Hugenholtz,
Nicola Segata,
Nikos C. Kyrpides,
Robert D. Finn
Posted 19 Sep 2019
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/762682
(published DOI: 10.1038/s41587-020-0603-3)
Comprehensive reference data is essential for accurate taxonomic and functional characterization of the human gut microbiome. Here we present the Unified Human Gastrointestinal Genome (UHGG) collection, a resource combining 286,997 genomes representing 4,644 prokaryotic species from the human gut. These genomes contain over 625 million protein sequences used to generate the Unified Human Gastrointestinal Protein (UHGP) catalogue, a collection that more than doubles the number of gut protein clusters over the Integrated Gene Catalogue. We find that a large portion of the human gut microbiome remains to be fully explored, with over 70% of the UHGG species lacking cultured representatives, and 40% of the UHGP missing meaningful functional annotations. Intra-species genomic variation analyses revealed a large reservoir of accessory genes and single-nucleotide variants, many of which were specific to individual human populations. These freely available genomic resources should greatly facilitate investigations into the human gut microbiome.
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