The Human Oral Microbiome Database

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2008

The oral microbiome is one of the best-known, yet by 2008 only about half of the 774 species that make it up had been studied. On March 1, NIDCR-sponsored researchers launched the Human Oral Microbiome Database (HOMD), a web-accessible source of detailed information intended to spur collaborative efforts to identify which biofilm microbes affect human health and disease.

A bar chart on Distribution of genomes sequenced per phylum.

A bar chart on Distribution of genomes sequenced per phylum.

Human Oral Microbiome Database
Detail from a poster produced by a HOMD participant.
Edward Hamppand Trench Mouth
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June 3, 2026