TY - JOUR
T1 - A history of the MetaSUB consortium
T2 - Tracking urban microbes around the globe
AU - Ryon, Krista A.
AU - Tierney, Braden T.
AU - Frolova, Alina
AU - Kahles, Andre
AU - Desnues, Christelle
AU - Ouzounis, Christos
AU - Gibas, Cynthis
AU - Bezdan, Daniela
AU - Deng, Youping
AU - He, Ding
AU - Dias-Neto, Emmanuel
AU - Elhaik, Eran
AU - Afshin, Evan
AU - Grills, George
AU - Iraola, Gregorio
AU - Suzuki, Haruo
AU - Werner, Johannes
AU - Udekwu, Klas
AU - Schriml, Lynn
AU - Bhattacharyya, Malay
AU - Oliveira, Manuela
AU - Zambrano, Maria Mercedes
AU - Hazrin-Chong, Nur Hazlin
AU - Osuolale, Olayinka
AU - Łabaj, Paweł P.
AU - Tiasse, Prisca
AU - Rapuri, Sampath
AU - Borras, Silvia
AU - Pozdniakova, Sofya
AU - Shi, Tieliu
AU - Sezerman, Ugur
AU - Rodo, Xavier
AU - Sezer, Zehra Hazal
AU - Mason, Christopher E.
PY - 2022/11/18
Y1 - 2022/11/18
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104993
DO - 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104993
M3 - Debate/Note/Editorial
C2 - 36299999
AN - SCOPUS:85140077958
SN - 2589-0042
VL - 25
JO - iScience
JF - iScience
IS - 11
M1 - 104993
ER -