American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research

McDonald, Daniel; R. Hyde, Embriette; W. Debelius, Justine; T. Morton, James; González-Torres, Antonio; Ackermann, Gail; A. Aksenov, Alexander; Behsaz, Bahar; Brennan, Caitriona; Chen, Yingfeng; DeRight Goldasich, Lindsay; C. Dorrestein, Pieter; R. Dunn, Robert; K. Fahimipour, Ashkaan; Gaffney, James; A. Gilbert, Jack; Gogul, Grant; L. Green, Jessica; Hugenholtz, Philip; Humphrey, Greg; Huttenhower, Curtis; Jackson, Matthew; Janssen, Stefan; V. Jeste, Dilip; Jiang, Lingjing; T. Kelley, Scott; Knights, Dan; Kościółek, Tomasz; Ladau, Joshua; Leach, Jeff; Marotz, Clarisse; Meleshko, Dmitry; V. Melnik, Alexey; L. Metcalf, Jessica; Mohimani, Hosein; Montassier, Emmanuel; A. Navas-Molina, José; T. Nguyen, Tanya; D. Peddada, Shyamal; A. Pevzner, Pavel; S. Pollard, Katherine; Rahnavard, Ali; Robbins‐Pianka, Adam; Sangwan, Naseer; Shorenstein, Joshua; Smarr, Larry; Jin Song, Se; Spector, Timothy; D. Swafford, Austin; G. Thackray, Varykina; Thompson, Luke; Tripathi, Anupriya; Vázquez‐Baeza, Yoshiki; Vrbanac, Alison; E. Wischmeyer, Paul; Wolfe, Elaine; Zhu, Qiyun; Knight, Rob; E. Mann, Allison; Amir, Amnon; Frazier, Angel; Martino, Cameron; B. Lebrilla, Carlito; Lozupone, Catherine; M. Lewis, Cecil; L. Raison, Charles; Zhang, Chi; L. Lauber, Christian; Warinner, Christina; A. Lowry, Christopher; Callewaert, Chris; S. Bloss, Cinnamon; Willner, Dana; Domingos Galzerani, Daniela; J. Gonzalez, David; A. Mills, David; Chopra, Deepak; Gevers, Dirk; Berg-Lyons, Donna; D. Sears, Dorothy; Wendel, Doug; Lovelace, Elijah; C. Pierce, Emily; TerAvest, Emily; Bolyen, Evan; D. Bushman, Frederic; D. Wu, Gary; M. Church, George; Saxe, Gordon; D. Holscher, Hanna; Ugrina, Ivo; German, J; Gregory Caporaso, J.; M. Wozniak, Jacob; Kerr, Jacqueline; Ravel, Jacques; D. Lewis, James; S. Suchodolski, Jan; Jansson, Janet; Hampton‐Marcell, Jarrad; Bobe, Jason; Raes, Jeroen; Chase, John; A. Eisen, Jonathan; M. Monk, Jonathan; C. Clemente, José; F. Petrosino, Joseph; K. Goodrich, Julia; M. Gauglitz, Julia; Jacobs, Julian; Zengler, Karsten; S. Swanson, Kelly; Lewis, Kim; Mayer, Kris; Bittinger, Kyle; Dillon, Lindsay; S. Zaramela, Lívia; M. Schriml, Lynn; Gloria Domínguez-Bello, Maria; M. Jankowska, Marta; J. Blaser, Martin; Pirrung, Meg; Minson, Michael; Kurisu, Mike; J. Ajami, Nadim; Gottel, Neil; Chia, Nicholas; Fierer, Noah; White, Owen; D. Cani, Patrice; Gajer, Pawel; Strandwitz, Philip; Kashyap, Purna; J. Dutton, Rachel; S. Park, Rachel; J. Xavier, Ramnik; H. Mills, Robert; Krajmalnik‐Brown, Rosa; E. Ley, Ruth; M. Owens, Sarah; Klemmer, Scott; Matamoros, Sébastien; Mirarab, Siavash; Moorman, Stephanie; Holmes, Susan; Schwartz, Tara; W. Eshoo-Anton, Tifani; Vigers, Tim; Pandey, Vineet; Van Treuren, Will; Fang, Xin; Zech Xu, Zhenjiang; K. Jarmusch, Alan; Geier, Justin; Reeve, Nicolai; Silva, Ricardo; Kopylova, Evguenia; Nguyen, Dominic; Sanders, Karenina; Antonio Salido Benítez, Rodolfo; Cole Heale, Arthur; Abramson, Max; Waldispühl, Jérôme; Butyaev, Alexander; Drogaris, Chris; Nazarova, Elena; Price Ball, Mad; Gunderson, Beau

doi:10.1128/msystems.00031-18

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American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research

Published in mSystems • May 14, 2018

Authors:

Daniel McDonald

Embriette R. Hyde

Justine W. Debelius

Abstract

We show that a citizen science, self-selected cohort shipping samples through the mail at room temperature recaptures many known microbiome results from clinically collected cohorts and reveals new ones. Of particular interest is integrating n = 1 study data with the population data, showing that th...

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Microbiome

Citizen science

Gut microbiome

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