metaTraits

a standardized and FAIR resource that consolidates diverse databases and streamlines exploration, annotation, and integration of microbial trait data.

Contact Us

metaTraits was developed by Daniel Podlesny, Chan Yeong Kim, Shahriyar Mahdi Robbani, Christian Schudoma, and other members of the Bork Group at EMBL, Heidelberg, in collaboration with Lorenz C. Reimer, Julia Koblitz, and Isabel Schober at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Braunschweig.

For bug reports, issues and technical support please email the
📧 metaTraits Support Bot.


For general inquiries or feedback, please contact
📧 Daniel Podlesny or Shahriyar Mahdi Robbani.

Cite

metaTraits: a large-scale integration of microbial phenotypic trait information.
Daniel Podlesny, Chan Yeong Kim, Shahriyar Mahdi Robbani, Christian Schudoma, Anthony Fullam, Lorenz C. Reimer, Julia Koblitz, Isabel Schober, Anandhi Iyappan, Thea Van Rossum, Jonas Schiller, Anastasia Grekova, Michael Kuhn, and Peer Bork
Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Nov 26:gkaf1241. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1241.

Funding

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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) — project number 460129525 (NFDI4Microbiota), by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. RS-2023-00240807), by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK) within the framework of LIBIS/de.NBI, by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space in the frame of de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE (W-de.NBI-014), and by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).