MicrobiomeGym is an open platform to host metagenomic sequence data, statistical analysis routines and model benchmark results. We requires minimal efforts to upload your own data, codes and results. Briefly speaking, here are the contribution procedure.

1. Please contact the author: Xiaowei Zhan (Xiaowei.Zhan@UTSouthwestern.edu), and state your interests to contribute.
2. Provide an documented examples. For simulated datasets, document the model assumptions and code to reproduce the simulated results; for real datasets, document the necessary reference and state the permission of usage; for analysis codes, provide a function that takes a standardize microbiome data and phenotypes and outputs the analysis results in an R list; for benchmark results, provide the calculated statistics from which datasets and analysis codes so that reproduction of results are feasible.
3. Send the datasets/methods/benchmarks to the authors
4. MicrobiomeGym team will check the input materials
5. MicrobiomeGym will host your resources

We do not enforce or restrict the usage of the hosted resources, and would like the users to utilize them to their own research. We seek and incorporate your feedbacks. Please send us your comments if you find MicrobiomeGym useful or just shoot us an email and tell us you used MicrobiomeGym. Hearing back from you will keep us motivated in continuously improve MicrobiomeGym.