Open Microbial Community

A git-native, AI-assisted platform for microbial ecology research

Point at an SRA accession. Select your analysis. Get a paper.

Get Started with GitHub

Free & Open

No article processing charges

Days to weeks

vs. 6-18 months to publication

Interactive figures

Not static PNGs trapped in PDFs

Living documents

Improve over time via pull requests

How It Works

  1. Submit your data

    Enter an SRA accession and select your analysis pipeline

  2. Pipeline runs on HPC

    Standardized Nextflow pipelines process your sequences

  3. Answer a few questions

    Our AI interviews you about the study context

  4. Draft generated

    AI creates a manuscript from results + your input

  5. Review via GitHub

    Peer review happens through pull requests