Universities & Research Institutes
Faculty, principal investigators, laboratories and research teams.
Microbial genomics · Ecology · Bioinformatics
Applied Solutions
Study-specific analysis for environmental and biotechnology questions. We connect microbial genomics and omics data with metadata, appropriate statistics and biological interpretation to evaluate evidence in the context of each application.
Blue Carbon & Coastal Ecosystems
Microbial and ecological evidence supports coastal ecosystem research, restoration baselines, ecosystem-health assessment and long-term monitoring.
Research questions
How do communities and functional patterns vary across mangroves, seagrasses, coastal gradients or restoration stages?
How we support your study
We integrate microbial community profiling and metagenomics with environmental metadata and ecological statistics. The results can contribute to monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) documentation. Carbon accounting, certification and accredited carbon-credit verification are outside our scope.
- Community profiles and microbial functional potential
- Environmental associations and ecological interpretation
- Temporal and spatial comparisons across monitoring or restoration studies
Environmental Monitoring
Microbial and ecological analysis can help establish baselines and assess changes across coastal, terrestrial and other environmental systems.
Research questions
How do communities respond to pollution, disturbance or environmental gradients? What changes are supported across monitoring periods or after restoration and other interventions?
How we support your study
We combine microbial profiles with physicochemical metadata, multivariate statistics and constrained ordination. This provides specialist analytical support for environmental assessments; statutory EIA reports and accredited consultancy services are outside our scope.
- Baseline and impact-related community comparisons
- Environmental associations and design-aware ecological models
- Longitudinal and post-intervention monitoring with uncertainty summaries
Agriculture & Soil Microbiomes
Investigate microbial patterns associated with soil conditions, crops and treatments, including plant–microbe relationships and nutrient cycling.
Research questions
How do rhizosphere communities differ across crops, treatments or soil conditions? Which patterns relate to nutrient availability, biofertiliser or biocontrol research?
How we support your study
We analyse 16S/ITS and metagenomic datasets alongside soil and crop metadata, selecting comparisons that account for field design and environmental variation.
- Diversity, community shifts and differential abundance
- Functional potential and nutrient-related annotations
- Indicator taxa and community–soil associations
Pollution, Xenobiotics & Bioremediation
Assess pollutant-associated community changes and candidate biodegradation functions using microbiome and genomic data.
Research questions
How do communities differ between contaminated and reference sites? Which candidate functions relate to hydrocarbons, pesticides or industrial contaminants?
How we support your study
We connect microbial profiles and metabolic annotations with pollutant measurements and study design. Computational potential requires experimental validation before bioremediation performance can be claimed.
- Community shifts and contaminated–reference comparisons
- Candidate xenobiotic and degradation pathway annotations
- Pollution associations, ecological models and scientific figures
Antimicrobial Resistance & Microbial Surveillance
Genomic and metagenomic data support research into the distribution and context of antimicrobial resistance-associated genes.
Research questions
Which resistance-associated genes occur in a dataset? How do their genomic contexts and profiles differ across environmental, wastewater or isolate samples?
How we support your study
We examine resistomes, strain relationships and mobile-element context where the data allow. Findings support research surveillance, not clinical diagnosis or treatment decisions.
- AMR gene annotation and comparative resistome profiles
- Plasmid and mobile-element context where resolvable
- Genome similarity, strain comparisons and metadata integration
Health-Associated Microbiome Research
Gut, oral, skin and other host-associated microbiomes raise questions about community variation across research cohorts and sampled conditions.
Research questions
Which patterns differ across groups or time points? How do treatment exposure and available study metadata relate to community composition or function?
How we support your study
We design comparisons around replication, repeated measures and confounders, using appropriately de-identified research data. These services are not diagnostic or therapeutic.
- Amplicon and metagenomic cohort comparisons
- Longitudinal and metadata-adjusted statistical analysis
- Functional profiles, expression integration and clear reporting
Genome-Resolved Metagenomics & Bioprospecting
Genome-resolved analysis links candidate microbial functions and enzymes to reconstructed genomes and their biological context.
Research questions
Which microbes, functions and pathways merit further study? How can genome quality and comparative evidence inform candidate prioritisation?
How we support your study
We recover and assess metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), annotate functions and interpret metabolic pathways. Candidate functions and enzymes require external experimental validation; enzyme expression, biochemical characterisation, fermentation and scale-up are outside our services.
- MAG recovery, quality assessment and functional annotation
- CAZyme analysis, functional gene mining and metabolic pathways
- Traceable prioritisation of candidate microbes, functions and enzymes
Clients & collaborators
Who We Work With
Researchers, PhD Scholars & Postdoctoral Researchers
Researchers requiring specialist sequencing analysis, statistics and interpretation.
Biotechnology & Sequencing Companies
Downstream bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics and specialist analytical support.
Environmental Consultancies
Specialist microbial and ecological analysis for environmental baseline and monitoring projects.
NGOs & Conservation Organisations
Biodiversity, restoration, mangrove, seagrass, coastal and ecosystem programmes.
Blue Carbon & Coastal Restoration Programmes
Projects requiring microbial and ecological baseline and monitoring evidence.
Government & Public-Sector Organisations
Research, environmental and ecosystem-monitoring programmes.
Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprospecting Teams
Genome-resolved microbial-function and enzyme-discovery projects.
CSR & Sustainability Programmes
Organisations supporting restoration, biodiversity and environmental-monitoring initiatives.
A collaborative analysis partner
A different application or a new biological question?
Share your hypothesis, study design and analytical challenge. We will assess what the data can support and propose a study-specific approach.
BiomeLens provides bioinformatics and data analysis services. Laboratory sequencing, DNA/RNA extraction and wet-lab sample processing are not part of our services.