The metagenomics and metadesign of the subways and Urban biomes (MetaSUB) international consortium inaugural meeting report

Microbiome

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Afshinnekoo, Ebrahim ^b   Ahsanuddin, Sofia ^b   Ghedin, Elodie ^b   Read, Timothy ^b   Fraser, Claire ^b   Dudley, Joel ^b   Bowler, Christopher ^b   Mason, Christopher E ^a,b   Chernomoretz, Ariel ^b   Stolovitzky, Gustavo ^b   Łabaj, Paweł P ^b   Graf, Alexandra B ^b   Darling, Aaron ^c   Burke, Catherine ^c   Noushmehr, Houtan ^b   Dias Neto, Emmanuel ^b   Guo, Yongli ^b   Xie, Zhi ^b   Lee, Patrick K H ^b   Shi, Leming ^b   Ruiz Perez, Carlos A ^b   Zambrano, Maria Mercedes ^b   Siam, Rania ^b   Ouf, Amged ^b   Richard, Hugues ^b   Lafontaine, Ingrid ^b   Wieler, Lothar H ^b   Semmler, Torsten ^b   Prithiviraj, Bharath ^b   Nedunuri, Narasimha ^b   Mehr, Shaadi ^b   Banihashemi, Kambiz ^b   Lista, Florigio ^b   Anselmo, Anna ^b   Suzuki, Haruo ^d   Kuroda, Makoto ^d   Yamashita, Riu ^d   Sato, Yukoto ^d   Kaminuma, Eli ^d   Aranda, Celia M Alpuche ^e   Martinez, Jesus ^e   Dada, Christopher ^b,f   Dybwad, Marius ^b   Oliveira, Manuela ^b   Schuster, Stephan ^b   Siwo, Geoffrey H ^b   Jang, Soojin ^b   Seo, Sung Chul ^b   Hwang, Sung Ho ^b   Ossowski, Stephan ^b   Bezdan, Daniela ^b   Chaker, Salama ^b   Chatziefthimiou, Aspassia D ^b   Udekwu, Klas ^b   Liungdahl, Per ^b   Sezerman, Ugur ^b   Meydan, Cem ^b   Elhaik, Eran ^g   Gonnet, Gaston ^b   Schriml, Lynn M ^b   Mongodin, Emmanuel ^b   Huttenhower, Curtis ^b   Gilbert, Jack ^b   Eisen, Jonathan ^h   Hirschberg, David ^b   Hernandez, Mark ^b   McGrath, Ken ^b   McGrath, Leanne ^b   Gray, Andrew ^b   Osuolale, Olayinka ^b   Segata, Nicola ⁱ   Fillo, Silvia ^b   Iraola, Gregorio ^b   Zhou, Yiming ^b   Chang, Yujun ^b   Li, Yang ^b   Zhend, Yuanting ^b   Hou, Wanwan ^b   Ramirez, Adan ^b   Cepeda, Martha ^b   Desnues, Christelle ^b   Rascovan, Nicolas ^b   Baron, Colin ^b   Nagarajan, Niranjan ^b   Ercolini, Danilo ^b   Menary, Wayne ^b   Tighe, Scott ^b   Donia, Mohamed ^b   Levy, Shawn ^b   Benito, Joseph ^b   Jones, Angela ^b   Kasarskis, Andrew ^b   Maritz, Julia ^b   Jorgensen, Ellen ^b   Neches, Russell ^b   Livelli, Tom ^b   Barnetche, Jesus Martinez ^b   Pasolli, Edoardo ^b   Greenfield, Nick ^b   Hasan, Nur ^b   Brownstein, John ^b   Nozick, Linda ^b   Michels, Harold ^b   Schriml, Lynn ^b   Brownstein, Catherine ^b   Garbarino, Jeanne ^b   Lyons, Abby ^b   Zhu, Jeff ^b   more..

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Japan)

^e Lab of Comparative Neurophysiology   (Mexico)

^f NONE   (New Zealand)

^g NONE   (United Kingdom)

^h Library Fund Development   (United States)

ⁱ NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance markers; Biosynthetic gene clusters; Built environment; Microbiome; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; LAND BIOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84997142688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20492618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-016-0168-z     Document Type: Article

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