For use of eHOMD web site please cite this latest publication:

Isabel Fernández Escapa, Tsute Chen, Yanmei Huang, Prasad Gajare, Floyd E Dewhirst, and Katherine P Lemon. New insights into human nostril microbiome from the expanded Human Oral Microbiome Database (eHOMD): a resource for species-level identification of microbiome data from the aerodigestive tract. DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00187-18. Online Open Access: https://msystems.asm.org/content/3/6/e00187-18

Previous HOMD web site publication:

Chen, T., Yu, W-H, Izard, J., Baranova,  O.V., Lakshmanan, A., Dewhirst, F.E. (2010) The Human Oral Microbiome Database: a web accessible resource for investigating oral microbe taxonomic and genomic information. Database, Vol. 2010, Article ID baq013, doi: 10.1093/database/baq013. Online Open Access: http://database.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/2010/0/baq013


If you use the 16S rRNA training set sequences, please cite this publication:

F. Escapa, I., Huang, Y., Chen, T., Lin, M., Kokaras, A., Dewhirst F.E., Lemon, K.P. (2020) Construction of habitat-specific training sets to achieve species-level assignment in 16S rRNA gene datasets. Microbiome 8, 65. Online Open Access https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00841-w

For the detail description and analysis of the human oral microbiome, please cite this article:

Dewhirst, F.E., Chen, T., Izard, J, Paster, B.J., Tanner, A.C.R., Yu, W.-H., Lakshmanan, A., Wade, W.G. (2010) The Human Oral Microbiome. J. Bacteriol. 192: 5002-5017. Online Open Access: http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/192/19/5002