Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist
Chloe Mirzayi(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Audrey Renson(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Massive Analysis and Quality Control Society(Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems), Cesare Furlanello(University of Oxford), Susanna‐Assunta Sansone(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Fatima Zohra(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Shaimaa Elsafoury(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Ludwig Geistlinger(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Lora J. Kasselman(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Kelly Eckenrode(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Janneke van de Wijgert(Deakin University), Amy Loughman(Deakin University), Francine Z. Marques(Imperial College London), David A. MacIntyre(University of Copenhagen), Manimozhiyan Arumugam(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Rimsha Azhar(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Francesco Beghini(University of Trento), Kirk Bergstrom(Okanagan University College), Ami S. Bhatt(Pennsylvania State University), Jordan E. Bisanz(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Jonathan Braun(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Héctor Corrada Bravo(Virginia Commonwealth University), Gregory A. Buck(Virginia Commonwealth University), Frederic D. Bushman(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), David Casero(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Gerard Clarke(University College Cork), María Carmen Collado(Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority), Paul D. Cotter(Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority), John F. Cryan(University of Minnesota), Ryan T. Demmer(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Suzanne Devkota(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Eran Elinav(Fundación Con Vida), Juan S. Escobar(Virginia Commonwealth University), Jennifer M. Fettweis(European Bioinformatics Institute), ROBERT FINN(University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Anthony A. Fodor(University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Sofia K. Forslund(Max Delbrück Center), André Franke(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), Cesare Furlanello(Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Jack Gilbert(Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Elizabeth A. Grice(University Health Network), Benjamin Haibe‐Kains(University Health Network), Scott A. Handley(Georgetown University), Pamela Herd(Georgetown University), Susan Holmes(University of California, Los Angeles), Jonathan P. Jacobs(University of California, Los Angeles), Lisa Karstens(Oregon Health & Science University), Rob Knight(University of Minnesota), Dan Knights(University of Minnesota), Omry Koren(Bar-Ilan University), Douglas S. Kwon(Dalhousie University), Morgan G. I. Langille(University of Maryland, Baltimore), Brianna Lindsay(University of Maryland, Baltimore), Dermot McGovern(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Alice C. McHardy(Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research), Shannon K. McWeeney(Johns Hopkins University), Noel T. Mueller(Johns Hopkins University), Luigi Nezi(Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico), Matthew R. Olm(Yale University), Noah W. Palm(Yale University), Edoardo Pasolli(Rega Institute for Medical Research), Jeroen Raes(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Matthew R. Redinbo(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Malte Rühlemann(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), R. Balfour Sartor(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Patrick D. Schloss(University of Maryland, Baltimore), Lynn M. Schriml(University of Maryland, Baltimore), Eran Segal(University of Maryland, Baltimore), Michelle Shardell(University of Maryland, Baltimore), Thomas J. Sharpton(Oregon State University), Ekaterina Smirnova(Inserm), Harry Sokol(Inserm), Justin L. Sonnenburg(Fred Hutch Cancer Center), Sujatha Srinivasan(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), Louise B. Thingholm(University of California, San Francisco), Peter J. Turnbaugh(University of California, San Francisco), Vaibhav Upadhyay(University of California, San Francisco), Ramona Walls(University of Luxembourg), Paul Wilmes(Tokyo Institute of Technology), Takuji Yamada(Tokyo Institute of Technology), Georg Zeller(Johns Hopkins University), Mingyu Zhang(Johns Hopkins University), Ni Zhao(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Liping Zhao(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Wenjun Bao(SAS Institute (United States)), Aedín C. Culhane(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Viswanath Devanarayan(Eisai (United States)), Joaquı́n Dopazo(Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío), Xiaohui Fan(University of Cologne), Matthias Fischer(University of Cologne), Wendell Jones(Q2 Solutions (United States)), Rebecca Kusko(Cornell University), Christopher E. Mason(The University of Queensland), Tim R. Mercer(The University of Queensland), Susanna‐Assunta Sansone(University of Helsinki), Andreas Scherer(University of Helsinki), Leming Shi(Center for Drug Evaluation and Research), Shraddha Thakkar(National Center for Toxicological Research), Weida Tong(SAS Institute (United States)), Russ Wolfinger(SAS Institute (United States)), Chris Hunter(University of Trento), Nicola Segata(Harvard University), Curtis Huttenhower(Harvard University), Jennifer B. Dowd(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Heidi E. Jones(The Graduate Center, CUNY), Levi Waldron(The Graduate Center, CUNY)
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Abstract
The particularly interdisciplinary nature of human microbiome research makes the organization and reporting of results spanning epidemiology, biology, bioinformatics, translational medicine and statistics a challenge. Commonly used reporting guidelines for observational or genetic epidemiology studies lack key features specific to microbiome studies. Therefore, a multidisciplinary group of microbiome epidemiology researchers adapted guidelines for observational and genetic studies to culture-independent human microbiome studies, and also developed new reporting elements for laboratory, bioinformatics and statistical analyses tailored to microbiome studies. The resulting tool, called 'Strengthening The Organization and Reporting of Microbiome Studies' (STORMS), is composed of a 17-item checklist organized into six sections that correspond to the typical sections of a scientific publication, presented as an editable table for inclusion in supplementary materials. The STORMS checklist provides guidance for concise and complete reporting of microbiome studies that will facilitate manuscript preparation, peer review, and reader comprehension of publications and comparative analysis of published results.
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