Update History
  • Upgraded to PrimeFaces 13.0.10 and Java version 21 (12/2024);
  • Enhanced property search for microbes at different taxonomical levels (11/2024)
  • Our MicrobiomeNet paper is now published on the NAR 2025 Database Issue (10/2024);
  • Fixed a bug associated with metabolite search in reaction tables (10/2024)
  • Code cleaning and refactoring for improved performance (09/2024);
  • Added a tutorial to introduce the main features of MicrobiomeNet (08/2024);
  • Created the MicrobiomeNet User Forum at our OmicsForum and start to add FAQs (08/2024);
  • Added Metabolism Compatibility map to show a global view of metabolic competition and complementarity indexes relative to any query microbe (08/2024);
  • Added Neighborhood Map integrating taxonomy and metabolic distances to show the overall similarities among microbes/taxa (07/2024);
  • Added microbe-phenotype associations based diseases, host genetics, drug metabolism (07/2024);
  • Improved support for searching microbe by common names (07/2024);
  • Improved the loading speed of GEM and pathways (07/2024);
  • Switching to using DuckDB for improved search performance (07/2024);
  • Added the search summary page (06/2024);
  • Users can click the node and edges from co-occurrence network to visit the associated GEMs (06/2024);
  • Updated the layout of the website (06/2024);
  • Enhances the co-occurrence network visual exploration (06/2024);
  • Updated the taxonomy information to be consistent with the latest NCBI release (04/2024);
  • MicrobiomeNet can now compute competition and complementarity indexes for any pair of microbes (01/2024);
  • Updates the visualization of GEM (10/2023);
  • Added search and visualization support for microbe-metabolite association network (07/2023);
  • Added search and visualization support for microbe-microbe co-occurrence network (06/2023);
  • Added search and visualization support for metabolic pathways based on subsystems (06/2023);
  • Added searchable data table for microbes and metabolites (05/2023);
  • Started building the pathway and network libraries for search and visualization (05/2023);
  • Collected another ~7000 GEMs more and performed data cleaning (05/2023);
  • Completed curating the taxonomy info for the taxa from the interaction database (04/2023);
  • A total of ~125,000 microbial associated were curated (02/2023);
  • Started collecting the microbial association data from literature and public databases (03/2022);
  • Our TrpNet (https://trpnet.ca) is now published on Metabolites (12/2021);
  • Developed web-based database, TrpNet, for understanding tryptophan metabolism across gut microbiome (07/2021-12/2021);
  • Built the microbial tryptophan metabolites library based on the GEM collection (06/2021);
  • Updated the information from GEM to obtain metabolites, reactions, enzymes and reactions tables (08/2020);
  • Added the origin information for microbes in the database (08/2020);
  • About 6000 GEMs were collected and parsed (06/2020);
  • Started collecting GEMs to support functional analysis for microbiome data (09/2019);
Xia Lab @ McGill   (last updated 2024-12-16)