Your microbiome data, in one place.
Upload the microbiome tests you already have. Track them over time. Log your life alongside the data. And get a regular briefing on new microbiome research, curated and written for you.
Free · Non-profit · Not a medical service
You paid to understand yourself. You got a PDF.
You paid $200. It expires in thirty days.
Most vendor reports are a one-time PDF. Open it, read it, lose access. The data you paid for vanishes from the dashboard before you’ve had time to think about it.
Your tests don’t talk to each other.
Last year’s test from one company can’t be compared to this year’s test from another. Different formats, different taxonomies, different measurements. You’re stuck with disconnected snapshots.
Google a bacteria, get a supplement ad.
When you search for a bacteria in your results, what comes back is either a wellness blog overpromising what one capsule can do, or a paywalled academic abstract you’d need a PhD to parse. Neither helps.
Atlas is the tool your microbiome test should have come with.
Atlas
A longitudinal journal for your microbiome.
Atlas is the first product of The Source Biome Project, a non-profit effort to build open infrastructure for microbiome science.
It takes the microbiome tests you already have, makes them comparable across years and sources, lets you log your life alongside the data, and translates the research about your specific bacteria into plain language. On a regular cadence it also sends you a curated briefing on new microbiome research. No score. No recommendations. No ads. Just your biology, organized so it actually means something.
- ·Open now, free
- ·Curated research reports, in plain language
- ·Export or delete anytime
- ·No scores, no recommendations
- ·Non-profit, open-source
All your tests, finally connected.
Upload results from any supported testing company. Atlas normalizes them to a shared reference and tracks them over time, so a test from one source last year and a test from another source this year can sit on the same chart, with the same units.
Your life and your gut, on the same timeline.
Log what you eat, how you sleep, what medications you take, where you travel. Atlas lines them up against your test results, so you can see what changed when. We show you the data; you draw your own conclusions.
Every bacteria in your results, becomes knowable.
A name in your report doesn’t have to stay a name. Atlas turns it into a full context: plain-language description, curated peer-reviewed research, how it behaves in your own data, which life events line up with its changes.
Understand your results without becoming a researcher.
When you search for a bacteria in your report, you get one of two extremes: oversimplified wellness blogs that overpromise, or dense academic abstracts you’d need a PhD to parse. Atlas does the translation. Every bacteria gets a plain-language summary tied to the actual peer-reviewed research, with evidence tags telling you how confident to be, and links back to the source papers when you want to go deep.
Your data is yours.
Atlas stores your tests and journal entries encrypted at rest and in transit. Export everything in CSV or JSON whenever you want. Delete your account permanently. Contributing to the research commons is a separate choice you can revoke any time. We never sell individual-level data. Full stop.
Stay current on the research, without the homework.
Microbiome science moves fast, and most of it is locked in dense journal articles. So Atlas does the reading for you. On a regular schedule, it gathers the latest research and turns it into a clear, plain-language report: structured, sourced, and honest about what's still uncertain. Every account gets them, past reports stay in your library, and you never have to go hunting for what's new.
The gut, in motion: what recent research is saying
Three threads dominated the last cycle of gut-microbiome research. Mucus specialists such as Akkermansia muciniphila drew renewed metabolic interest, though the strongest claims remain associational, not causal.
Shotgun sequencing reported A. muciniphila at 1.8–4.2% (median 2.6%); 16S surveys reported 0.4–1.9%. Treat cross-method differences as method artifacts, not biology.
Atlas is the first piece of something bigger.
The Source Biome Project is a non-profit effort building open infrastructure for microbiome science: a tool, a public research commons, at-home test kits, and open-source lab hardware. Each piece is built in public, governed transparently, and feeds the next.
Atlas
A longitudinal journal for your microbiome data, plus a curated briefing on new research. The product you came here for — free to use.
Atlas
A longitudinal journal for your microbiome data, plus a curated briefing on new research. The product you came here for — free to use.
A free, public research commons
An anonymized dataset that grows with every member (on by default, and you control what you share). More contributors means sharper context in your own account and faster science for the field.
A free, public research commons
An anonymized dataset that grows with every member (on by default, and you control what you share). More contributors means sharper context in your own account and faster science for the field.
Inexpensive test kits
Affordable at-home test kits processed by a partner CLIA lab. Results flow straight into your Atlas account.
Inexpensive test kits
Affordable at-home test kits processed by a partner CLIA lab. Results flow straight into your Atlas account.
Community labs, open hardware
Open-source desktop sample-processing hardware so community labs, classrooms, and citizen-science groups can drive the cost of microbiome testing down.
Community labs, open hardware
Open-source desktop sample-processing hardware so community labs, classrooms, and citizen-science groups can drive the cost of microbiome testing down.
Atlas is open. Create your account.
Start your journal.
Free, and free to leave — export or delete your data anytime. Upload the tests you already have, keep a journal alongside them, and read the research as it moves. No scores, no recommendations, no ads.