Introducing Orion
Microbiome^™ Database

A Revolutionary Platform to Explore, Analyze,
and Share Microbiome Data

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Accelerate Microbiome Research with Orion

Free, collaborative platform for large-scale metagenomic studies

Designed to eliminate redundant work and foster global research collaboration

Community-built to simplify microbiome data curation and sharing

Early Access Release: Monday, July 7, 2025Effortless Microbiome Automation

Be among the first to experience the Orion Microbiome™ Database.
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What Makes Orion Unique & Powerful

Pre-Analyzed, Standardized Results

We store results, not just raw data

Every dataset on Orion is processed with our analysis pipeline that integrates several widely adopted, open-source tools into a single, standardized workflow, enabling consistent and comparable results across studies. Find your data by querying both taxonomic profiles and sample metadata, saving countless hours of redundant computation.

Cohorts:
The Researcher’s Mindset, Built In

Organize your data exactly how you need it

Orion's cohort studio mirrors how researchers think: ask questions, compile data, conduct analyses, test hypotheses, and draw conclusions. Seamlessly create queries for samples of interest from thousands of publicly available data points and build dynamic cohorts to conduct studies around, or augment your own personal data in our data browser. Then, continue to visualize your project and make edits within the cohort studio as your research project evolves.

Community-Powered Science

Stand on the shoulders of giants

Orion's strength lies within its passionate community with a shared interest in collaborative science. We proudly host a set of pre-curated cohorts developed by our curation team and other like-minded researchers around the globe. Jump right in and skip the tedious curation process, building off of the strong foundations of other curation efforts without re-inventing the wheel.

“Research is adaptive — your platform should be too.”

How Orion Works

1-Submit

Easily upload your FASTQ files and metadata. Our standardized pipeline processes your data for seamless comparison to public datasets.
2-Browse

Search the database using advanced query tools.
3-Build

Construct cohorts using your data, public data, or existing public cohorts.
4-Visualize

Analyze and edit cohorts with powerful visualization tools.
5-Share

Share your cohorts and analyses with collaborators or the public.