Metadata field: environment_material

Studies:

Scope: all

Required.

Type: string

Example values:

  • feces [ENVO:00002003]
  • saliva [ENVO:02000036]
  • dorsum of tongue [UBERON:0009471]
  • supragingival dental plaque [UBERON:0016485]
  • soil [ENVO:00001998]
  • sand [ENVO:01000017]
  • water [ENVO:00002006]
  • sea water [ENVO:00002149]
  • meltwater [ENVO:01000722]
  • rainwater [ENVO:01000600]
  • pond water [ENVO:00002228]

Description: ENVO (or UBERON in case the term is not present in ENVO) term describing the sample material. At the moment, ENVO does not contain all necessary terms to describe the material, e.g. terms for caecal material are missing. We are aware that this means that for many host-associated samples, the annotated terms do not fit completely, e.g. annotating "caecum" in the case of actually sampled caecal matter is only a workaround. We hope that a change in ENVO could help, and might also add a new free-text field with the sampled material to cover more rare cases that are not in the ontology, like for example "broncho-alveolar lavage fluid".

Value Count
fecal material [ENVO:00002003] 6802
ruminal fluid [UBERON:0010228] 538
lumen of digestive tract [UBERON:0006909] 526
digestive tract [UBERON:0001555] 495
feces [UBERON:0001988] 484
intestine environment [ENVO:2100002] 181
coral reef [ENVO:00000150] 157
caecum [UBERON:0001153] 154
gill tissue material [ENVO:01001391] 145
colon [UBERON:0001155] 128
hindgut [UBERON:0001046] 111
lumen of intestine [UBERON:0018543] 87
cecum mucosa [UBERON:0000314] 82
mucus [UBERON:0000912] 82
microbial mat material [ENVO:01000157] 73
mantle [UBERON:0006575] 60
bodily fluid material [ENVO:02000019] 58
tissue [UBERON:0000479] 51
organic material [ENVO:01000155] 48
large intestine [UBERON:0000059] 47
marine sponge reef [ENVO:01000161] 47
rumen [UBERON:0007365] 46
cloaca [UBERON:0000162] 45
post-anal tail muscle [UBERON:0003665] 40
face skin environment [ENVO:2100005] 39
material entity in digestive tract [UBERON:0035118] 35
ciliated cell [CL:0000064] 34
lumen of colon [UBERON:0007159] 34
lumen of gastrointestinal system [UBERON:0011565] 33
jejunum [UBERON:0002115] 32
abomasum [UBERON:0007358] 30
ileum [UBERON:0002116] 30
omasum [UBERON:0007362] 30
ruminant reticulum [UBERON:0007361] 30
lumen of midgut [UBERON:0007147] 29
duodenum [UBERON:0002114] 28
lumen of jejunum [UBERON:0016517] 28
multicellular organism [UBERON:0000468] 28
colonic mucosa [UBERON:0000317] 26
environment associated with an animal part or small animal [ENVO:01001055] 24
urine [UBERON:0001088] 24
Bathymodiolus gill tissue material [ENVO:01001393] 23
drinking water [ENVO:00003064] 23
cerebrospinal fluid [UBERON:0001359] 20
dental plaque [UBERON:0016482] 18
larval stage [UBERON:0000069] 16
soil [ENVO:00001998] 16
chyme material [ENVO:02000026] 15
contaminated water [ENVO:00002186] 15
fossil material [ENVO:00002164] 10
skin environment [ENVO:2100003] 10
bodily fluid [UBERON:0006314] 8
insect abdomen [UBERON:6000020] 7
colostrum [UBERON:0001914] 6
brain [UBERON:0000955] 4
bone element [UBERON:0001474] 2
lumen of hindgut [UBERON:0007148] 1