Analysis of soil bacteria susceptibility to manufactured nanoparticles via data visualization

• Rong Liu,
• Yuan Ge,
• Patricia A. Holden and
• Yoram Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1635–1651, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.166

• communities exposed to MNPs and thus evaluate the potential for environmental impacts. Keywords: environmental impact; manufactured nanoparticles; nanoinformatics; soil bacteria; visualization; Introduction Manufactured nanoparticles (MNPs) are now routinely used in numerous products and applications due to

• MNPs of primary size in the range of about 15–20 nm and about 20–30 nm [42], respectively. The soil bacteria were exposed to the above MNPs for 15 and 60 days at three different doses (0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 mg/g (soil) for TiO2 MNPs and 0.05, 0.1, and 0.5 mg/g (soil) for ZnO MNPs) as well as 0, 15, and 60

• -by-design nanomaterials. Workflow for visual data exploration of soil bacteria susceptible to MNP treatments. Bipartite graph for MNP-bacteria interrelationships at order level. Soil bacteria taxa identified for the above graph are for the 95th–5th percentile range ≥ 10/n (n denotes the total number