NEWS
UNLOCK celebrates International Microorganism Day
- September 14, 2021
September 17th is International Microorganism Day. For this reason, we explain the definition of microorganism and how you can contribute to IMD.
UNLOCK celebrates World Microbiome Day
- June 27, 2021
Today is World Microbiome Day 2021, on which we celebrate all microbes all around the world. It's also the day on which we officially UNLOCK our new website.
Investment of 14 million for better use of micro-organisms
- April 30, 2020
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) will invest almost 25 million euros in UNLOCK, which is aimed to study mixed microbial communities and their application.
Microbes matter
BLOGS
New publication: Designing a Diet-based Minimal Microbiome
- April 22, 2022
Recently, UNLOCK-scientists composed a synthetic community of ten key microbes from the human intestinal tract: The Diet-based Minimal Microiobome.
Building your own semantic database
- November 30, 2021
Finally, in this third part of our blog series on our FAIR Data Station, we describe how you can build your own Semantic database
Being FAIR still sounds like work… Why bother?
- November 23, 2021
Previously, we introduced you to our FAIR Data Station. In this second part, we answer the question: Why even bother?
Data FAIRification the easy way - Getting started
- November 16, 2021
In a three-piece blog series, we guide you through the concept of our FAIR Data Station. First, in this blog, we explain how to get started.
Calling for a systems approach in microbiome research
- November 10, 2021
Based on research projects and publications on microbiomes, researchers recently concluded that a systems approach is needed to fully unlock the potential of microbiomes.
The Modular Bioreactor Platform - Case study 1
- September 7, 2021
In this case study, we explain the use of constructed wetlands to remove micropollutants from water.
The Parallel Cultivation Platform – Case study 1
- July 28, 2021
In this article, we describe a case study on the storage of polymers by micro-organisms under different temperatures.
The Biodiscovery Platform - Case study 1
- July 14, 2021
In this case study, we describe the design of a synthetic microbial community from a source of microbes we always carry with us: the human gut.
Technical details amplicon analysis
- July 7, 2021
NG-Tax 2.0 allows FAIR high-throughput analysis and classification of marker gene amplicon sequences. Read about its performance here.
PUBLICATIONS
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Inter-species Metabolic Interactions in an In-vitro Minimal Human Gut Microbiome of Core Bacteria.
Sudarshan A. Shetty, Ben Kuipers, Siavash Atashgahi, Steven Aalvink, Hauke Smidt and Willem M. de Vos. Npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2022)8:21
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A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses
Andra Waagmeester, Egon L. Willighagen, Andrew I. Su, Martina Kutmon, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, Daniel Fernández-Álvarez, Quentin Groom, Peter J. Schaap, Lisa M. Verhagen & Jasper J. Koehorst. BMC Biol 19, 12 (2021)
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Experimental infrastructure requirements for quantitative research on microbial communities
Robbert Kleerebezem, Gerben Stouten, Jasper Koehorst, Alette Langenhoff, Peter Schaap, Hauke Smidt. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. Volume 67, February 2021, Pages 158-165
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Machine learning approaches to predict the plant-associated phenotype of Xanthomonas strains
Dennie te Molder, Wasin Poncheewin, Peter Schaap, and Jasper Koehorst. BMC Genomics 22, 848 (2021)
OTHER MEDIA
- National Roadmap video for NWO (made by Public Cinema)
- Hauke Smidt explains the concept of UNLOCK
- Animation explaining UNLOCK (by Folded Paper)
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