Journal article
Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist
Nature medicine, Vol.27(11)
17/Nov/2021
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.
Details
- Title
- Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research; the STORMS checklist
- Creators
- STORMS Consortium (Collaboration)Genomic Standards Consortium (Collaboration)Massive Analysis and Quality Control Society (Collaboration)Chloe Mirzayi - 972WIS_INST___2203_GRAD_SCH_PUBLIC_HEALTH_(USA)_(NEW_YORK)Eran Elinav - 972WIS_INST___121Eran Segal - 972WIS_INST___83
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nature medicine, Vol.27(11); 17/Nov/2021
- Number of pages
- 8
- Publisher
- Nature Research
- Language
- English
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x
- Grant note
- Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number 5R01CA230551. Additionally, J.B.D. was supported by the Leverhulme Trust. Author contributions: The Genomic Standards Consortium and Massive Analysis and Quality Control Society provided feedback and approved the final checklist; C.M., A.R., J.B.D., H.E.J. and L.W. conceived of the checklist; C.M., A.R., J.v.d.W., N.S., C.H., J.B.D., H.E.J. and L.W. developed the initial checklist; C.M., F.Z., S.E., R.A., J.B.D., H.E.J. and L.W. tested the checklist; C.M. and L.W. drafted the manuscript; F.Z.M. created manuscript headings and analytical sample size flowchart figures; C.M. created supplemental tables; A.R., F.Z., S.E., L.G., L.J.K., K.E., J.v.d.W., A.L., F.Z.M., D.A.M., M.A., R.A., F. Beghini, K.B., A.B., J. Bisanz, H.C.B., G.A.B., F. Bushman, D.C., G.C., M.C.C., P.D.C., J.F.C., R.T.D., S.D., E.E., J.F., R.D.F., A.A.F., S.F., A.F., C.F., J.G., E.G., B.H.-K., S. Handley, P.H., S. Holmes, J.P.J., L.K., R.K., D. Knights, O.K., D. Kown, M.L., B.L., D.P.B.M., A.C.M., S.M., N.T.M., L.N., M.O., N.P., E.P., J.R., M.R.R., J.S.E., M.R., R.B.S., P.D.S., L.S., E. Segal, M.S., T.S., E. Smirnova, H.S., J.L.S., S.S., L.B.T., P.J.T., V.U., R.L.W., P.W., G.Z., M.Z., N.Z., N.S., J.B.D., H.E.J. and C.H. provided feedback on the checklist and manuscript; and all authors reviewed and approved the manuscript.
- Record Identifier
- 993330748803596
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