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Figures & data
Figure 1. Characteristics of publications in Ecuador associated with metagenomics. In the 14 publications found, there is limited participation of local researchers; more noticeably is the large asymmetry between the origin of source samples and the application of research, which is often done overseas
Figure 2. Characteristics of publications in Ecuador associated with the microbiome. Although with only 12 surveyed publications, there is limited participation of Ecuadorian researchers in the national territory
Figure 3. Language analysis through categorization and word clouds of the publications in Ecuador. a) Most studies are associated with the PubMed categories of molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences, immunology and microbiology, and environmental science. b) The comparison cloud shows how the analyzed publications in the four most frequent PubMed categories differentiate in their use of concepts. c) The commonality cloud is a representation of the most frequent concepts used in all the surveyed publications
Figure 4. Sequence data production and publications on metagenomics and bacteria in South America. Ecuador remains in the median or first quartile for the number of publications and Entrez BioProjects, with either metagenomic information or related to the domain Bacteria
Figure 5. A rough estimate of access to the NCBI main portal as a percentage of global traffic share between May and July 2018 (three months). A sharp contrast is present between Brazil and the rest of the countries in South America. Ecuador leads the tail of countries with less than 0.1% of global participation
