System version: 2.0

Search engine: Meta-Storms 2.3 Beta

Database information:

• Total sample number: 250,273
• Total project number: 798
• MSE is developed and maintained by Bioinformatics Group,Single-Cell Center
• The database scores and meta-data (lastest release: Apr. 2, 2020)
• The latest MNS, MAS, MFI and meta-data are available here.

• The standalone software (version 2.3 Beta, release date: Mar. 13, 2020)
• You can get the latest release from Meta-Storms GitHub repository.
• The QIIME 2 plugin
• You can also get the QIIME 2 plugin of Meta-Storms 2 from q2-metastorms GitHub repository.

1. X. Su^*, G. Jing, Z. Sun, L. Liu, Z. Xu, D. McDonald, Z. Wang, H. Wang, A. Gonzalez, Y. Zhang, S. Huang, G. Huttley, R. Knight^* and J. Xu^*. Multiple-Disease Detection and Classification across Cohorts via Microbiome Search, mSystems, 2020. Link
2. X. Su^*, G. Jing, D. McDonald, H. Wang, Z. Wang, A. Gonzalez, Z. Sun, S. Huang, J. Navas, R. Knight^* and J. Xu^*. Identifying and predicting novelty in microbiome studies, mBio, 2018. Link
3. X.Su¹, X. Wang¹, G. Jing and K. Ning^*. GPU-Meta-Storms: Computing the structure similarities among massive amount of microbial community samples using GPU, Bioinformatics, 2014. Link
4. X. Su, J. Xu and K. Ning^*. Meta-Storms: Efficient Search for Similar Microbial Communities Based on a Novel Indexing Scheme and Similarity Score for Metagenomic Data, Bioinformatics, 2012. Link

1. Apr. 2, 2020. The total number of samples in MSE has been updated to 250,273.
2. Mar. 17, 2020. Our manuscript entitled "Multiple-Disease Detection and Classification across Cohorts via Microbiome Search" is published in mSystems.
3. Mar. 13, 2020. The new search engine kernel software ( Meta-Storms 2 ver. 2.3 Beta) is released.
4. Jan. 09, 2020. Due to system and database maintenance, MSE search service will be temporarily unstable during Jan. 09 - Jan. 10, 2020 (Beijing time). We are sorry for the inconvenience.
5. Dec. 27, 2019. Now the MSE 2 is online, supporting OTU-based, species-based and KO-based search. MSE 2 provides both upload-based and paste-based query, and also enables the full-taxonomy multi-view of query and matches in search results.