Skin skin
Skin shotgun metagenomes (all ages).
Membership rule (config/scope.yaml): skin in body_sites. Memberships derive deterministically from host, body sites, life stages and assay; a study can belong to several scopes.
273
studies
77,062
runs
54,553
BioSamples
31,287
BioSamples with harvested attributes — site known 58 %, age 24 %, sex 23 %
27,726
runs with a Sandpiper profile (36 %)
273
classified · 0 pending
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Body sites and life stages within the scope
Primary body site (body_site_primary)
| value | studies | runs |
|---|---|---|
| skin | 208 | 35,588 |
| multi_site | 26 | 28,512 |
| gut_stool | 24 | 7,666 |
| blood_tissue | 6 | 1,808 |
| other_site | 4 | 343 |
| vaginal_urogenital | 3 | 296 |
| respiratory_lower | 1 | 79 |
| unknown_site | 1 | 2,770 |
Primary life stage (life_stage_primary)
| value | studies | runs |
|---|---|---|
| unknown_age | 173 | 31,072 |
| adult | 52 | 14,611 |
| infant | 23 | 25,735 |
| child | 11 | 1,770 |
| mixed_ages | 6 | 879 |
| neonate | 4 | 1,041 |
| elderly | 3 | 1,850 |
| adolescent | 1 | 104 |
Assay (assay)
| value | studies | runs |
|---|---|---|
| shotgun_dna | 197 | 50,108 |
| other | 39 | 8,453 |
| isolate_genome | 14 | 559 |
| amplicon | 7 | 1,986 |
| amplicon_misfiled | 7 | 252 |
| mixed | 4 | 14,849 |
| unknown | 3 | 682 |
| rna | 2 | 173 |
Classification stage (classification_stage)
| value | studies | runs |
|---|---|---|
| sonnet_x2 | 182 | 28,746 |
| opus_adjudicated | 51 | 33,536 |
| deterministic_prior | 35 | 12,176 |
| owner_decision | 4 | 1,879 |
| deterministic_rule | 1 | 725 |
Largest studies by BioSamples (top 25)
| study | title | BioSamples | runs | sites | stages | assay | stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRJEB11419 ENA | American Gut Project | 8,060 | 13,995 | gut_stool;oral;skin;nasal_nasopharyngeal;other_site | infant;adult;elderly | mixed | opus_adjudicated |
| PRJEB87291 ENA | Coordinated assembly of skin microbiome dermotypes across body sites | 3,618 | 3,618 | skin | unknown_age | other | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJEB40903 ENA | DNA extraction comparison testing 2019-2020 | 2,770 | 2,770 | gut_stool;skin;oral | adult | shotgun_dna | opus_adjudicated |
| PRJEB83236 ENA | SEPSIS Human Microbiome Study | 1,917 | 1,917 | gut_stool;milk;oral;skin | infant;child;adult | shotgun_dna | deterministic_prior |
| PRJNA699281 ENA | The microbiome of aging: instability, heterogeneity, and pathogenicity reservoirs in the skin, oral, and... | 1,569 | 1,569 | skin;oral;gut_stool | elderly;adult | shotgun_dna | opus_adjudicated |
| PRJNA46333 ENA | Gene-Environment Interactions at the Skin Surface | 1,554 | 4,845 | skin | adult;mixed_ages | shotgun_dna | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJEB111647 ENA | Restoration of Microbiota in Newborns | 1,441 | 1,441 | gut_stool;skin;vaginal_urogenital;milk | infant;neonate;child;adult | shotgun_dna | deterministic_prior |
| PRJNA971252 ENA | Human skin metagenome during the first year of life | 1,076 | 2,296 | skin | infant;adult | shotgun_dna | deterministic_prior |
| PRJEB10914 ENA | Developmental Ecology of the Human Microbiome - Restoration Study of babies. | 1,016 | 1,016 | gut_stool;oral;skin;vaginal_urogenital | infant;adult | amplicon | owner_decision |
| PRJEB11486 ENA | A Universal Microbial Clock for Estimating the Postmortem Interval Metcalf SHSU April 2012 exp | 997 | 1,081 | skin;other_site | unknown_age | other | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJEB62460 ENA | Metcalf - Microbial clock for estimating PMI in three geographic regions in the U.S | 872 | 1,444 | skin | elderly;adult | shotgun_dna | opus_adjudicated |
| PRJNA754140 ENA | The Human Virome as Trace Evidence in Forensic Investigation | 800 | 800 | skin | unknown_age | other | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJEB14801 ENA | Puerto Rico and Plantanal | 767 | 767 | skin;gut_stool;oral;nasal_nasopharyngeal;multi_site | infant | amplicon | owner_decision |
| PRJNA849962 ENA | Monkeypox virus Genome sequencing and assembly | 736 | 736 | skin | unknown_age | mixed | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJDB16177 ENA | The longitudinal sets of skin microbiome from Japanese infants | 725 | 725 | skin | infant;neonate | other | deterministic_rule |
| PRJNA266117 ENA | Human skin bacterial metagenome and Virome Metagenome | 675 | 675 | skin | adult | shotgun_dna | opus_adjudicated |
| PRJEB108678 ENA | MPRINT: mother-infant dyads and antibiotic exposure | 665 | 665 | gut_stool;skin;milk | infant;neonate;adult | shotgun_dna | deterministic_prior |
| PRJEB103845 ENA | HairLess and Microbiome | 628 | 628 | skin | adult | shotgun_dna | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJEB105562 ENA | HairLess and Microbiome | 628 | 628 | skin | adult | shotgun_dna | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJEB82667 ENA | Tracking Acquisition of Pathogens In Real-Time using Metagenomics | 595 | 595 | skin | neonate | shotgun_dna | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJNA495913 ENA | Fungal community of human skin | 564 | 564 | skin | neonate;infant | unknown | opus_adjudicated |
| PRJNA1211286 ENA | Intraspecies associations from strain-rich facial skin microbiome samples | 563 | 563 | skin | unknown_age | shotgun_dna | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJEB11425 ENA | Wischmeyer_ICU_microbiome | 544 | 544 | gut_stool;oral;skin;multi_site | unknown_age | other | sonnet_x2 |
| PRJNA217052 ENA | Fiji COMP | 523 | 8,503 | gut_stool;oral;skin;other_site | unknown_age | shotgun_dna | opus_adjudicated |
| PRJNA1162089 ENA | Skin shotgun metagenomics and 16s amplicon sequencing from healthy adults, healthy children, and patients... | 498 | 553 | skin | child;adult | shotgun_dna | deterministic_prior |
Counts are computed from data/registry_studies.parquet at build time (release R2026.25).