The goal of creating the Human Oral Microbiome Database (HOMD) is to provide the scientific community with comprehensive information on the approximately 600 prokaryote species that are present in the human oral cavity. The majority of these species are uncultivated and unnamed, recognized primarily by their 16S rRNA sequences. The HOMD presents a provisional naming scheme for the currently unnamed species so that strain, clone, and probe data from any laboratory can be directly linked to a stably named reference entity. The HOMD links sequence data with phenotypic, phylogenetic, clinical, and bibliographic information. Full and partial oral bacterial genome sequences determined as part of this project and the Human Microbiome Project, are being added to the HOMD as they become available. HOMD offers easy to used tools for viewing all publically available oral bacterial genomes. Welcome!

Investigators contributing to this project: Tsute Chen, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Derrick E. Fouts, Jacques Izard, Bruce J. Paster, Anne Tanner, and William G. Wade

Contributors: Oxana Baranova, Jessica Blanton, Wen-Han Yu, Abby Lakshmanan, and Akila Ganesan

This project is supported by: contract U01 DE016937 "A Foundation for the Oral Microbiome and Metagenome" from The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research ;