Femmicro16S: open source tools for annotation and meta-analysis of 16s vaginal microbiome data

Abstract

The vaginal microbiome (VM) impacts a woman’s health throughout her lifetime, but the microorganisms inhabiting this important body site remain poorly understood. To improve the accuracy of VM studies, we created an open source 16S analysis pipeline that capitalizes on continuously curated reference databases. We also began a publically-available repository of 16S VM datasets from around the world to facilitate meta-analyses and validation studies.