Advancing the microbiome research community

Curtis Huttenhower; Rob Knight; C Titus Brown; J Gregory Caporaso; Jose C Clemente; Dirk Gevers; Eric A Franzosa; Scott T Kelley; Dan Knights; Ruth E Ley; Anup Mahurkar; Jacques Ravel; Scientists for Advancement of Microbiome Research; Owen White

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.022

Advancing the microbiome research community

Cell. 2014 Oct 9;159(2):227-30. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.022.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA; HHMI, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA; Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
⁵ Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁶ BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
⁷ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁸ Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.
⁹ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
¹¹ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
¹² Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
¹³ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Center for Health-Related Informatics and Bioimaging, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: owhite@som.umaryland.edu.

Abstract

The human microbiome has become a recognized factor in promoting and maintaining health. We outline opportunities in interdisciplinary research, analytical rigor, standardization, and policy development for this relatively new and rapidly developing field. Advances in these aspects of the research community may in turn advance our understanding of human microbiome biology.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Animals
Biomedical Research* / methods
Biomedical Research* / standards
Guidelines as Topic
Humans
Microbiological Techniques
Microbiota*
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
United States

Advancing the microbiome research community

Authors

Affiliations

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding