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PRJEB49168 ERP133631

Singapore gut metagenomes, healthy adults and elderly

Singapore Platinum Metagenomes Project

Cross-sectional study of 45 gut metagenome samples from healthy Singaporean subjects (40 adult, 5 elderly), part of the Singapore Platinum Metagenomes Project, using Illumina, ONT and Hi-C sequencing. machine-written summary

45 samples · 218 runs · SG · Adult · 2021 · 15.12 Gbp / sample

Sources
○Sequence archive○Abstract / description✓Full text 225✓Supplementary tables 218–External resources–User contribution–Human verified

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○ Sequence archiverecords read; no usable sample values
○ Abstract / descriptionread; no usable statement
✓ Full text225 sample values (collection date, country, health condition, health condition detail, subject id) · PMC10986321, PMC11211831, PMC11331721, PMC11836353, PMC9431525, PMC9561172
✓ Supplementary tables218 sample values (age, sex)
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– User contributionnothing uploaded yet
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Samples at a glance
1 country
Age
adult40
elderly5
Condition
healthy_control45
Sex
female28
male17
Country
SG45
Body site
primary45
Sequencing depth per sample · this project all projects
all projects, 0–0.03 Gbp: 25,080 samples (4 %)all projects, 0.03–0.1 Gbp: 17,066 samples (3 %)all projects, 0.1–0.3 Gbp: 29,179 samples (5 %)all projects, 0.3–1 Gbp: 47,044 samples (8 %)all projects, 1–3 Gbp: 124,983 samples (22 %)all projects, 3–10 Gbp: 253,728 samples (44 %)this project, 3–10 Gbp: 3 samplesall projects, 10–30 Gbp: 72,533 samples (13 %)this project, 10–30 Gbp: 42 samplesall projects, 30–100 Gbp: 3,024 samples (1 %)all projects, 100–300 Gbp: 106 samples (0 %)all projects, ≥ 300 Gbp: 9 samples (0 %)project median 15.27 Gbp per sample0130Gbp
Community composition
Bifidobacterium 20.1%Faecalibacterium 8.9%Blautia_A 6.9%Roseburia 6.1%Collinsella 4.8%Prevotella 2.7%Fusicatenibacter 2.6%Ruminococcoides 2.3%Bacteroides 2.2%Megamonas 2.0%Gemmiger 1.9%Phocaeicola 1.8%not assigned to a genus 4.2%other genera 33.6%

Genera, mean relative abundance over 42 profiled gut samples of this project (Sandpiper SingleM profiles, GTDB R232; low-depth and non-metagenome profiles left out).

Field coverage
fieldsamplescoverageR1R2R3R4
age_category45 100%
country45 100%45
health_condition45 100%45
subject_id45 100%45
age_at_collection_days45 100%109
collection_date45 100%45
health_condition_detail45 100%45
sex45 100%109
Papers (7)
  • Mutual Exclusion of Methanobrevibacter Species in the Human Gut Microbiota Facilitates Directed Cultivation of a Candidatus Methanobrevibacter Intestini Representative. 2022 PMID 35699469 PMC9431525 own_data
  • Genome-centric analysis of short and long read metagenomes reveals uncharacterized microbiome diversity in Southeast Asians. 2022 PMID 36229545 PMC9561172 own_data
  • Comparison of <i>tet</i>(X4)-containing contigs assembled from metagenomic sequencing data with plasmid sequences of isolates from a cohort of healthy subjects. 2024 PMID 38441466 PMC10986321 own_data
  • Melon: metagenomic long-read-based taxonomic identification and quantification using marker genes. 2024 PMID 39160564 PMC11331721 own_data
  • From sporulation to village differentiation: the shaping of the social microbiome over rural-to-urban lifestyle transition in Indonesia 2025 own_data
2 more
  • Floria: fast and accurate strain haplotyping in metagenomes. 2024 PMID 38940183 PMC11211831
  • Species-resolved profiling of antibiotic resistance genes in complex metagenomes through long-read overlapping with Argo. 2025 PMID 39966439 PMC11836353
Details
Archive description

Sequencing data for gut metagenomes of 109 Singaporean subjects from the SPMP study. The project includes read data for Illumina, ONT and Hi-C sequencing. Metagenome assembled genomes (MAG) can be found in the "Related ENA Records" section, under "Analysis".

How this project entered the registry

Classified as human gut / stool shotgun DNA metagenome of adult by deterministic_prior with confidence 0.90. Assay shotgun_dna.

  • host external_curation.infant_catalog · “infant triage reason_code age_adult_only”
  • body site study.description · “Sequencing data for gut metagenomes of 109”
  • body site external_curation.infant_catalog · “body_site_call stool/gut”
  • life stage external_curation.infant_catalog · “infant triage reason_code age_adult_only”
Evidence examples (one per field × route)
samplefieldvaluerouteconf.sourcequote
SAMEA11358266age_at_collection_days20819R20.85paper.supp.41467_2022_33782_MOESM4_ESM.xlsx[Metadata!Age]57
SAMEA11358266collection_date2018R30.70paper.fulltext.methodswere collected in 2018 using a BioCollector
SAMEA11358266countrySGR30.70paper.fulltext.abstractcohort of individuals in Singapore
SAMEA11358266health_conditionhealthy_controlR30.70paper.fulltext.abstracthealthy cohort of individuals in Singapore
SAMEA11358266health_condition_detailhealthy cohort of individuals in SingaporeR30.70paper.fulltext.abstracthealthy cohort of individuals in Singapore
SAMEA11358266sexmaleR20.85paper.supp.41467_2022_33782_MOESM4_ESM.xlsx[Metadata!Gender]M
SAMEA11358266subject_idSAMEA11358266R30.75design.one_sample_per_subject:fulltextin a cross-sectional survey, we deeply characterized 109 gut microbiomes from three ethnicities in Singapore
Sequencing

218 runs over 109 samples · mean 7.67 Gbp per run (median 7.85 Gbp, total 1,671.87 Gbp; 218 runs with a base count) · layout PAIRED 109, SINGLE 109 · platform ILLUMINA 109, OXFORD_NANOPORE 109 · models Illumina HiSeq 4000 (109), PromethION (96), GridION (10), MinION (3) · 46% of runs with a Sandpiper profile · first public 2021-12-10 – 2021-12-13

Authors (31)

Ding Y first · Er S · Tan A · Gounot JS · Saw WY · Tan LWL · Teo YY · Nagarajan N · Seedorf H last · Shaw J first · Chen H · Yu YW last · Chen X first · Yin X · Shi X · Yan W · Yang Y · Liu L · Zhang T last · Xu X · Febinia CA first · Luqman H · Kusuma P · Priliani L · Lewis J · Wihandani DM · Pinatih GNI · Sudoyo H · Almeida A · Malik SG · Jacobs GS last

Downloads

PRJEB49168.csv.gz (2.3 KB) · parquet (71.6 KB) — all 45 samples, every field with route and confidence · PRJEB49168_determinations.csv.gz (3.3 KB) — 443 evidence rows

Samples (45 · every field this project has values for · hover a cell for its source)
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