Funding and Acknowledgements

The work conducted by the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (https://ror.org/05cwx3318) is supported by the Genomic Science Program in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) under contract numbers DE-AC02-05CH11231 (LBNL), 89233218CNA000001 (LANL), and DE-AC05-76RL01830 (PNNL).

Framework

This schema was made using the LinkML framework. LinkML is a data modeling language that is used to create data models in a human-readable format. The LinkML framework is used to generate the schema in multiple formats, including JSON-LD, YAML, and RDF.

NMDC uses the LinkML framework to create a schema to be used by researchers, data scientists, and developers to understand the structure of the data and how it is related.

Citing NMDC

Schema

Microbiome Data Coordination Center. (n.d.). NMDC Schema. GitHub. from https://github.com/microbiomedata/nmdc-schema

Program Launch

E. M. Wood-Charlson, Anubhav, D. Auberry, H. Blanco, M. I. Borkum, Y. E. Corilo, K. W. Davenport, S. Deshpande, R. Devarakonda, M. Drake, W. D. Duncan, M. C. Flynn, D. Hays, B. Hu, M. Huntemann, P.-E. Li, M. Lipton, C.-C. Lo, D. Millard, K. Miller, P. D. Piehowski, S. Purvine, T. B. K. Reddy, M. Shakya, J. C. Sundaramurthi, P. Vangay, Y. Wei, B. E. Wilson, S. Canon, P. S. G. Chain, K. Fagnan, S. Martin, L. A. McCue, C. J. Mungall, N. J. Mouncey, M. E. Maxon, E. A. Eloe-Fadrosh, The National Microbiome Data Collaborative: enabling microbiome science. Nature Reviews Microbiology 18, 313-314 (2020). doi: 10.1038/s41579-020-0377-0