# CAMERA

**Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA)**. One of the first efforts to make environmental ‘omics datasets available in a common cyberinfrastructure was through the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA). This project integrated ‘omics data and rich environmental metadata in a common framework to query data and run analyses. In Fall 2014, the CAMERA project ended making these important data sets and analysis pipelines inaccessible, some of which did not exist elsewhere. To continue the broad use of these data sets, the data from the CAMERA data distribution center (DDC) and website were mirrored in iMicrobe including: reads, peptides, CDS, contigs, assemblies, annotations, and related project, sample and environmental data. These data were then harmonized across projects using standardized terminology and ontology across projects (github), to enable a rapid search interface for data sets in the CyVerse Data Store. The CAMERA dataset consists of \~120 projects with \~1TB of data. \
