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A history of the MetaSUB consortium : Tracking urban microbes around the globe

Ryon, Krista A. ; Tierney, Braden T. ; Frolova, Alina ; Kahles, Andre ; Desnues, Christelle ; Ouzounis, Christos ; Gibas, Cynthis ; Bezdan, Daniela ; Deng, Youping and He, Ding , et al. (2022) In iScience 25(11).
Abstract

The MetaSUB Consortium, founded in 2015, is a global consortium with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, bioinformaticians, engineers, and designers, with members from more than 100 countries across the globe. This network has continually collected samples from urban and rural sites including subways and transit systems, sewage systems, hospitals, and other environmental sampling. These collections have been ongoing since 2015 and have continued when possible, even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The consortium has optimized their workflow for the collection, isolation, and sequencing of DNA and RNA collected from these various sites and processing them for metagenomics analysis, including the identification of... (More)

The MetaSUB Consortium, founded in 2015, is a global consortium with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, bioinformaticians, engineers, and designers, with members from more than 100 countries across the globe. This network has continually collected samples from urban and rural sites including subways and transit systems, sewage systems, hospitals, and other environmental sampling. These collections have been ongoing since 2015 and have continued when possible, even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The consortium has optimized their workflow for the collection, isolation, and sequencing of DNA and RNA collected from these various sites and processing them for metagenomics analysis, including the identification of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. Here, the Consortium describes its foundations, and its ongoing work to expand on this network and to focus its scope on the mapping, annotation, and prediction of emerging pathogens, mapping microbial evolution and antibiotic resistance, and the discovery of novel organisms and biosynthetic gene clusters.

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10.1016/j.isci.2022.104993
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  author       = {{Ryon, Krista A. and Tierney, Braden T. and Frolova, Alina and Kahles, Andre and Desnues, Christelle and Ouzounis, Christos and Gibas, Cynthis and Bezdan, Daniela and Deng, Youping and He, Ding and Dias-Neto, Emmanuel and Elhaik, Eran and Afshin, Evan and Grills, George and Iraola, Gregorio and Suzuki, Haruo and Werner, Johannes and Udekwu, Klas and Schriml, Lynn and Bhattacharyya, Malay and Oliveira, Manuela and Zambrano, Maria Mercedes and Hazrin-Chong, Nur Hazlin and Osuolale, Olayinka and Łabaj, Paweł P. and Tiasse, Prisca and Rapuri, Sampath and Borras, Silvia and Pozdniakova, Sofya and Shi, Tieliu and Sezerman, Ugur and Rodo, Xavier and Sezer, Zehra Hazal and Mason, Christopher E.}},
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  series       = {{iScience}},
  title        = {{A history of the MetaSUB consortium : Tracking urban microbes around the globe}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104993}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.isci.2022.104993}},
  volume       = {{25}},
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