The Human Oral Microbiome Database

The oral microbiome is one of the best-known, yet by 2008 only about half of the 774 species that make it up had been studied. On March 1, NIDCR-sponsored researchers launched the Human Oral Microbiome Database (HOMD), a web-accessible source of detailed information intended to spur collaborative efforts to identify which biofilm microbes affect human health and disease.