Table 1 Web of Microbes Data Examples

Field/Use-case	Example in WoM	WoM feature^a
Ecosystem biology	Biocrust bacteria interactions with Microcoleus vaginatus metabolites [18]	The Web, One Metabolite
Metabolic responses to metabolite composition	Comparison of Synechococcus sp. in four types of growth media [8]	One Organism
Environmental microbiology	Soil bacteria carbon utilization in complex culture media (see Additional file 1: Appendix file methods)	One Environment, EUS, OCS-FME, OCS-FMC
Biotechnologies	Exometabolomics for design of synthetic mutualism systems [21]	OCS-FME
Native consortia	Biocrust porewater native microbial community incubations [18]	One Environment
Metabolic changes over time	Triculture of soil microbes in amino acid medium [19]	One Environment

^aThe Web, One Metabolite, One Organism and One Environment are all viewing features available on the Web of Microbes. The EUS, OCS-FME and OCS-FMC are compatibility scores available on the One Environment view. All features and WoM terminology are defined in Additional file 2: Appendix A

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