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RT @LabMizrahi: Another step for microbiome research!🔬 New study introduces saMBA, a gut microbiome archive from South America. Understandi….

We improved estimates of regional biodiversity and identified countries with the greatest potential to uncover more biodiversity in future sampling efforts—an analysis that’s the first of its kind and a critical guide for regions with limited research resources. (7/7)

By analysing >30 projects—most not included in any compendium before—we show how saMBA expands our understanding of the human microbiome with samples from nearly every country in the region 🌎. We found that a third were likely discarded due to past sample size restrictions (6/7)

Why South America? Simple: it’s one of the regions with the fewest microbiome samples but some of the highest gut microbiome diversity among its inhabitants ☝️ (. Plus, I’m from Chile, so there's an emotional link 😂 (5/7).

Inspired by their work and after talking with Richard (first author in , I recreated the workflow of the global compendium, which is currently unavailable to other users. Then, with my coauthors, we curated a list of projects to be included in saMBA (4/7).

So, global compendiums have analysed gut microbiomes using unified workflows. But resource-driven choices can unintentionally perpetuate some representativity issues these efforts aimed to fix—like filtering based on project size and metadata annotation. (3/7).

We know public microbiome data is dominated by samples from Europe and North America. That’s a problem since microbe-health associations often don’t translate across global populations. (2/7).

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