MIMt is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) for all copyrightable material, this means that anyone is free to copy, reuse, display and distribute the images and data, provided you give us credit by citing: MIMt – A curated 16S rRNA reference database with less redundancy and higher accuracy at species-level identification. Cabezas MP., Fonseca NA., Muñoz-Merida A. Environmental microbiome 19, 88 (2024).