Quarterly User Update (July – September 2025)
Welcome to our community update for Q3 2025 – covering announcements and highlights; and celebrating accomplishments from our team, users, and collaborators.
Community Highlights
This past summer, the KBase team hosted interns across several projects that were featured as Community Highlights, including:
- Grace Feng, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, who worked on developing an app and high school students,
- An Nguyen and Dinh Phan, who analyzed bacterial genomes associated with the roots of black cottonwood trees.
The workforce development programs, Myco-Ed and MICROnet, were also featured as two efforts for training the next generation of researchers in mycological and microbiome sciences.
If you are interested in a KBase Highlight on your work or projects, email us at engage@kbase.us.
Workshops and Training
In addition to hosting interns and supporting programs, the KBase team supported several training and workshop opportunities. In August, they teamed up with the Colorado State University Microbiome Network to facilitate a workshop on microbial communities and analyzing metagenomic data at 4th Latin American Congress of Microbial Ecology.
ISME Lat 25 participants at the metagenomics workshop.
KBase is collaborating with the American Society for Microbiology on a four-part series that introduces early career researchers and faculty members to metagenomic data analysis in KBase and how to prepare a genome announcement through ASM’s Microbiology Resource Announcement online publication.
Recorded webinars, including August’s updates on the annual KBase Educators Fall Orientation and an Introduction to the KBase platform are readily available via the KBase YouTube Channel.
Platform Updates
As a reminder, now ORCiD records can be linked to KBase accounts! Instructions and details are available here: https://www.kbase.us/news/link-orcid-records-to-your-kbase-account/.
KBase Publications
The platform and team behind KBase continues to support users to analyze their data and follow the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data principles through to publication. Studies published this quarter included:
- Mechanisms behind how bacteria can survive in bioreactors used to treat oil and gas produced water (Acharya et al. 2025);
- How rhizobacterium can produce biofilms that may protect plants from water-stress (Bhattacharyya et al. 2025); and
- Identifying nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in hot springs (Palmer et al. 2025).
All publications using KBase are available at: https://www.kbase.us/research. If we are missing your publication citing KBase in your methods, please let us know at engage@kbase.us.
Summary
To close out our update, here is a summary documenting July through September 2025 user numbers. Keep doing great science in KBase. The KBase team is here to support you!
