TY - JOUR
T1 - The metagenomics and metadesign of the subways and Urban biomes (MetaSUB) international consortium inaugural meeting report
AU - The MetaSUB International Consortium
AU - Afshinnekoo, Ebrahim
AU - Ahsanuddin, Sofia
AU - Ghedin, Elodie
AU - Read, Timothy
AU - Fraser, Claire
AU - Dudley, Joel
AU - Bowler, Christopher
AU - Mason, Christopher E.
AU - Chernomoretz, Ariel
AU - Stolovitzky, Gustavo
AU - Łabaj, Paweł P.
AU - Graf, Alexandra B.
AU - Darling, Aaron
AU - Burke, Catherine
AU - Noushmehr, Houtan
AU - Dias-Neto, Emmanuel
AU - Guo, Yongli
AU - Xie, Zhi
AU - Lee, Patrick K.H.
AU - Shi, Leming
AU - Ruiz-Perez, Carlos A.
AU - Zambrano, Maria Mercedes
AU - Siam, Rania
AU - Ouf, Amged
AU - Richard, Hugues
AU - Lafontaine, Ingrid
AU - Wieler, Lothar H.
AU - Semmler, Torsten
AU - Prithiviraj, Bharath
AU - Nedunuri, Narasimha
AU - Mehr, Shaadi
AU - Banihashemi, Kambiz
AU - Lista, Florigio
AU - Anselmo, Anna
AU - Suzuki, Haruo
AU - Kuroda, Makoto
AU - Yamashita, Riu
AU - Sato, Yukoto
AU - Kaminuma, Eli
AU - Aranda, Celia M.Alpuche
AU - Martinez, Jesus
AU - Dada, Christopher
AU - Dybwad, Marius
AU - Oliveira, Manuela
AU - Schuster, Stephan
AU - Siwo, Geoffrey H.
AU - Jang, Soojin
AU - Seo, Sung Chul
AU - Hwang, Sung Ho
AU - Ossowski, Stephan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The MetaSUB International Consortium.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The Metagenomics and Metadesign of the Subways and Urban Biomes (MetaSUB) International Consortium is a novel, interdisciplinary initiative comprised of experts across many fields, including genomics, data analysis, engineering, public health, and architecture. The ultimate goal of the MetaSUB Consortium is to improve city utilization and planning through the detection, measurement, and design of metagenomics within urban environments. Although continual measures occur for temperature, air pressure, weather, and human activity, including longitudinal, cross-kingdom ecosystem dynamics can alter and improve the design of cities. The MetaSUB Consortium is aiding these efforts by developing and testing metagenomic methods and standards, including optimized methods for sample collection, DNA/RNA isolation, taxa characterization, and data visualization. The data produced by the consortium can aid city planners, public health officials, and architectural designers. In addition, the study will continue to lead to the discovery of new species, global maps of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) markers, and novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). Finally, we note that engineered metagenomic ecosystems can help enable more responsive, safer, and quantified cities.
AB - The Metagenomics and Metadesign of the Subways and Urban Biomes (MetaSUB) International Consortium is a novel, interdisciplinary initiative comprised of experts across many fields, including genomics, data analysis, engineering, public health, and architecture. The ultimate goal of the MetaSUB Consortium is to improve city utilization and planning through the detection, measurement, and design of metagenomics within urban environments. Although continual measures occur for temperature, air pressure, weather, and human activity, including longitudinal, cross-kingdom ecosystem dynamics can alter and improve the design of cities. The MetaSUB Consortium is aiding these efforts by developing and testing metagenomic methods and standards, including optimized methods for sample collection, DNA/RNA isolation, taxa characterization, and data visualization. The data produced by the consortium can aid city planners, public health officials, and architectural designers. In addition, the study will continue to lead to the discovery of new species, global maps of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) markers, and novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). Finally, we note that engineered metagenomic ecosystems can help enable more responsive, safer, and quantified cities.
KW - Antimicrobial resistance markers
KW - Biosynthetic gene clusters
KW - Built environment
KW - Microbiome
KW - Next-generation sequencing
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U2 - 10.1186/s40168-016-0168-z
DO - 10.1186/s40168-016-0168-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 27255532
AN - SCOPUS:84997142688
SN - 2049-2618
VL - 4
JO - Microbiome
JF - Microbiome
M1 - 24
ER -