We are collecting and standardizing publicly available omics data and associated metadata from the Laurentian Great Lakes to increase its value and utility by making it more standardized, accessible, and approachable. Standardized data products from our bioinformatics pipelines will be accessible via our Great Lakes Atlas of Multi-omics Research (GLAMR) website. With the GLAMR website, users can find and explore omics datasets from the Great Lakes in the context of available nutrient and physical conditions. GLAMR currently contains omics data from amplicon, metagenomic, and metatranscriptomic sequencing projects.

We are always looking to expand the datasets available via GLAMR. If you have sequencing data you’d like to submit, please contact us at GLAMR-omics@umich.edu.

The most up to date information for all of the Western Lake Erie Culture Collection (WLECC) strains is now available on a public website.

The following publication highlights the creation of the WLECC:

Yancey, C. E., Kiledal, E. A., Chaganti, S. R., Denef, V. J., Errera, R. M., Evans, J. T., … & Dick, G. J. (2023). The Western Lake Erie Culture Collection: A promising resource for evaluating the physiological and genetic diversity of Microcystis and its associated microbiome. Harmful Algae, 102440.