Milestone - Catalog of environmental processes and climate-relevant microbiome functions (2.10) DUE

[ssarrafan]

Catalog of climate-microbiome relationships We will build a Linked Data component within the NMDC Data Portal for exploration of mechanistic microbiome processes underlying environmental processes, including processes linked to climate change (Data Portal, Milestone 4.3). This new component of the Data Portal will allow researchers to explore NMDC data and knowledge through an ontology of climate-related processes, with terms such as ‘climate change’, ‘permafrost thaw’, and ‘increased nitrification’. Working with relevant partners and stakeholders, we will create a hierarchy of these terms with an emphasis on processes that can be linked to microbiomes, where either microbial communities contribute to the process or are affected by it. For example, there is ample knowledge on known microbially-driven aspects of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles, and those can be associated with relevant terms in EnvO . Next, we will link terms in the environmental process index to existing terms used in the NMDC to annotate samples or data, including environment terms used to describe samples, and pathways and chemicals derived from functional annotation and metabolomics (Milestone 2.10).

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[ssarrafan]

@cmungall any update on this milestone? Any concerns about this getting done by the end of March?

FYI @mslarae13 @aclum @emileyfadrosh

[cmungall]

As a first step towards adding environmental and climate processes to ENVO, we have started working with the ENVO team on an easier SOP for adding new terms, and have been using these to complete the "biome" hierarchy in ENVO

[ssarrafan]

@cmungall Can you please add the next steps for this and when you anticipate completing this milestone? Thank you

[ssarrafan]

@cmungall this milestone is 2 quarters delayed already. Can you please update this GitHub issue with the status of this milestone and the plans moving forward. Thank you! @emileyfadrosh