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Sidra Medicine Microbiome Service
A national enabling platform providing microbial DNA extraction, marker-gene and shotgun metagenomic sequencing plus composition, statistical and ecological-network analysis for research and precision-health applications.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Qatar with service availability to academic and industry investigators across the MENA region
- Project type
- enabling sequencing and bioinformatics platform
- Research domain
- microbiome science, translational genomics and precision medicine
- Years
- 2026–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- Sidra Medicine launched the specialized paid service on World Microbiome Day, 27 June 2026, and its live service page lists sequencing, extraction and analysis offerings.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-06-27
- Scale
- No cumulative sample count reported; current offerings include 16S, 18S/ITS and shotgun metagenomics with bioinformatic interpretation across multiple body sites.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Sidra Medicine Laboratory of Microbiome and Biomarkers Discovery
- Partner organizations
- Qatar Foundation
- Organism / population
- microbial communities from human and experimental samples, including stool, oral, vaginal, blood, breastmilk, skin and tissue
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- microbial DNA extraction
- 16S rRNA sequencing
- 18S rRNA sequencing
- ITS sequencing
- shotgun metagenomics
- microbiome composition analysis
- ecological network analysis
Data access
Fee-for-service access by request for academic and industry investigators; project-specific data access is determined by each commissioning study.
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Current national-scale enabling platform explicitly offering microbial sequencing and computational genomics rather than an isolated laboratory assay.
Editorial note
This is infrastructure, not a single cohort. The Sidra service page is primary evidence for capabilities; QNA-derived coverage supplies the dated launch milestone.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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