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The Marine Metagenomics Portal (MMP)

Introduction

The Marine Metagenomics Portal (MMP) provides access to high-quality, curated, and freely accessible marine microbial genomics and metagenomics resources. Run by UiT The Arctic University of Norway as part of ELIXIR Norway, MMP is one of the services offered under the ELIXIR Microbiome community, which develops standards for FAIR microbiome analyses.

Key Features

  • MAR databases — richly annotated and manually curated sequence databases:
    • MarRef — reference genomes for marine prokaryotes
    • MarDB — non-reference marine prokaryotic genomes
    • MarCat — metagenome-assembled genomes from marine environments
  • Unified search — query all three MAR databases simultaneously through a single search engine
  • MetaPipe — complete workflow for the analysis of marine metagenomic data
  • FAIR standards — data and workflows aligned with FAIR principles for microbiome research
  • Open access — all databases and tools freely available

Getting Started

  1. Visit the Marine Metagenomics Portal to access the MAR databases
  2. Use the unified search engine to query MarRef, MarDB, and MarCat
  3. Run MetaPipe for end-to-end analysis of marine metagenomic datasets

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