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PRJEB74035 ERP158735

Gut microbiome in long-term fasting, Germany

Long-term fasting remodels gut microbial metabolism and host metabolism

Single-arm long-term fasting study (~9.8 days, ~250 kcal/day) in Germany: shotgun metagenomics of 241 stool samples from about 92 participants collected before, after and at follow-up of fasting. machine-written summary

241 samples · 241 runs · DE · Age unknown · 2025 · 3.43 Gbp / sample

Sources
✓Sequence archive 1,202○Abstract / description○Full text○Supplementary tables–External resources–User contribution–Human verified

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what each source gave
✓ Sequence archive1,202 sample values (collection date, country, intervention, subject id, timepoint)
○ Abstract / descriptionread; no usable statement
○ Full textread; no usable statement or table · PMC13227866, PMC13587497
○ Supplementary tablesfiles read; no table could be matched to the samples
– External resourcesnot covered by the external resources we ingest
– User contributionnothing uploaded yet · share metadata
– Human verifiednot yet checked by a person · I checked this project — verify it
Interventions

intervention · arms resolved

before · no interventionbefore · no interventi89 samplesdietdiet151 samples
single arm: samples before and on the intervention

88 people have samples in more than one arm.

design single_arm_before_after

Samples at a glance
1 country
Age
unknown241
Country
DE241
Body site
primary241
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 %)this project, 1–3 Gbp: 69 samplesall projects, 3–10 Gbp: 253,728 samples (44 %)this project, 3–10 Gbp: 172 samplesall projects, 10–30 Gbp: 72,533 samples (13 %)all 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 3.43 Gbp per sample0130Gbp
Sampling design and relatedness

longitudinal — not resolved

89 of 91 people sampled more than once (238 samples; median 2, up to 4 per person). Schedule stated by the source: “stool before fasting, after fasting, and at two follow-up visits (FUP_1, FUP_2)” (time origin: intervention_start).

How longitudinal and relatedness information is derived

Community composition

No Sandpiper profile for this project's samples yet.

Field coverage
fieldsamplescoverageR1R2R3R4
age_category0 0%
country241 100%241
health_condition0 0%
subject_id240 100%240
collection_date241 100%241
intervention240 100%240
timepoint_label240 100%240
Papers (1)
  • Long-term fasting remodels gut microbial metabolism and host metabolism 2024 own_data
Details
Archive description

To be added

How this project entered the registry

Classified as human gut / stool shotgun DNA metagenome of age unknown by curator_audit with confidence 0.50. Assay shotgun_dna.

  • host runs.scientific_name · “human gut metagenome (241)”
  • host runs.environment_material · “feces (241)”
  • body site runs.scientific_name · “human gut metagenome (241)”
  • body site runs.environment_material · “feces (241)”
Evidence examples (one per field × route)
samplefieldvaluerouteconf.sourcequote
SAMEA115423614collection_date2022R10.85biosample.attribute:collection datecollection date: 2022
SAMEA115423614countryDER10.90sample.attr.geographic_location_country_and_or_seaGermany
SAMEA115423614interventionno_interventionR10.70sample.name_rule:DESCRIPTION+preprint.abstractDESCRIPTION: GEN_2_Before_Stool
SAMEA115423614subject_idGEN_2R10.70sample.name_rule:DESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTION: GEN_2_Before_Stool
SAMEA115423614timepoint_labelBeforeR10.70sample.name_rule:DESCRIPTIONDESCRIPTION: GEN_2_Before_Stool
Sequencing

241 runs over 241 samples · mean 3.46 Gbp per run (median 3.43 Gbp, total 834.47 Gbp; 241 runs with a base count) · layout PAIRED 241 · platform ILLUMINA 241 · models Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (241) · 92% of runs with a Sandpiper profile · first public 2025-01-20

Authors (0)

No author record.

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2 of the 4 core fields are below 50% coverage: age_category, health_condition. Share metadata

Downloads

PRJEB74035.csv.gz (6.8 KB) · parquet (77.8 KB) — all 241 samples, every field with route and confidence · PRJEB74035_determinations.csv.gz (12.0 KB) — 1,202 evidence rows

Samples (241 · every field this project has values for · hover a cell for its source)
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