Dear Biodata-IG Members,

Thank you all for your constructive input! The workshop report has now been cleaned up. All feedback has been integrated, and your additions and rephrasing suggestions have been accepted:

There are just two comments left that are waiting for final feedback.

@Christian Schmidt – could you please take a quick look and get back to us on those?

Additionally, while all other consortia have given their approval for the Zenodo publication (provided the feedback was integrated), the official approval for NFDI4Microbiota is still missing.

@Konrad Förstner – could you please give us the green light on this?

A couple of quick administrative updates regarding the current version of the document:

• We have removed the links to internal workshop documents.

• We also removed the Biodata-IG NFDI logo, as it has not yet been officially approved by the NFDI.

Authorship & Action Required: For the final publication, we suggest listing the spokespersons of the consortia alongside the workshop participants as authors. I have added a table in a separate tab within the document listing everyone. Please check this table to ensure your details are correct and add or verify your ORCID if it is still missing.

If we do not receive any objections regarding the authorship list or the content of the report by July 3, we will proceed with publishing it on Zenodo accordingly.

Thank you again for your continued collaboration and hard work on this!

Kind regards,

Mary

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