Meta-Storms 2 is the standalone implementation of the Microbiome Search Engine (MSE; http://mse.single-cell.cn). MSE is a search engine designed to efficiently search a database of microbiome samples and identify similar samples based on phylogenetic or functional relatedness. Meta-Storms 2 consists of the following steps: (i) creating a database composed of reference microbiome samples, and (ii) searching for similar samples in the database with given query microbiome sample(s) via phylogenetic similarities. Meta-Storms 2 relies on an advanced indexing algorithm, providing a fast, and constant, search speed in very large databases.
The Microbiome Search Engine system is now open for online microbiome search at http://mse.single-cell.cn.
The latest version of Meta-Storms2 is available at