I love all Aliens but yeah some are better than others 😅😂

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What’s next? Happy to take requests for new databases or features. Let me know what would make TaxSEA more useful for your work. I’m also putting together workshop materials & tutorials, so stay tuned if you’d like to learn how to use TaxSEA in your own microbiome analyses.

Automated BugSigDB integration. TaxSEA now talks more directly to the BugSigDB API and returns a table of PubMed IDs for microbiome signatures most similar to your results, instantly linking your findings to published studies.

New curated signature collections from the literature added:
• Urbanisation-associated microbiomes
• Mucin utilisation
• Gut–brain axis relevant taxa
All available as built-in gene sets for enrichment testing.

TaxSEA now integrates data from BacDive, the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase, which contains curated phenotypic + metabolic traits for thousands of bacteria. You can test whether your metagenome is enriched for taxa with traits like nitrate reduction, enzyme production etc.

Well done! Look forward to reading it 🎉