A Catalogue of the Mouse Gut Metagenome

To increase the value of mice models studies, we have used HiSeq2000-based whole genome sequencing to establish a catalogue of 2.6 million non-redundant microbial genes derived from 1,130 gigabases of microbial sequences from faecal samples of 184 mice of different strains and from different providers and housing laboratories. More than 99% of the genes are bacterial indicating that the mouse gut microbiota comprises at least 800-900 prevalent bacterial species.This reference gene catalog was annotated to Non-redundant protein sequences (NR) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and the evolutionary genealogy of genes: Non-supervised Orthologous Groups (eggNOG) databases.