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 The Biological Observation Matrix (BIOM) format
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 The BIOM file format (canonically pronounced *biome*) is designed to be a general-use format for representing counts of observations (e.g., OTUs, KO categories, lipid types) in one or more biological samples (e.g., microbiome samples, genomes, metagenomes).