volume 27 issue 11 pages 1885-1892

Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

Chloe Mirzayi 1
Audrey Renson 2
Fatima Zohra 1
Shaimaa Elsafoury 1
Ludwig Geistlinger 1
Lora J. Kasselman 3
Kelly Eckenrode 4
Janneke van de Wijgert 5
Amy Loughman 6
Francine Z. Marques 7
David A. MacIntyre 1
Manimozhiyan Arumugam 8
Rimsha Azhar 9
Francesco Beghini 10
Kirk Bergstrom 11
Ami Bhatt 12
Jordan E. Bisanz 13
Jonathan Braun 14
Héctor Corrada Bravo 15
Gregory A. Buck 16
Frederic Bushman 17
David Casero 18
Gerard Clarke 19, 20, 21
Maria Carmen Collado 20, 22
Paul D. Cotter 23
John F. Cryan 16
Ryan T Demmer 24, 25
Suzanne Devkota 26
Eran Elinav 14
Juan S Escobar 27
Jennifer Fettweis 28
Robert D. Finn 29
Anthony A. Fodor 30
Sofia Forslund 31
Andre Franke 32
CESARE FURLANELLO 33
Jack Gilbert 34
Elizabeth Grice 35
Benjamin Haibe-Kains 36
Scott Handley 37
Pamela Herd 38
Susan Holmes 39
Jonathan P. Jacobs 40
Lisa Karstens 41, 42
Rob Knight 43
Dan Knights 44
Omry Koren 45
Douglas S. Kwon 46
Morgan Langille 16
Brianna Lindsay 47
Dermot McGovern 48
Alice C McHardy 49
Shannon McWeeney 50
Noel T Mueller 51
Luigi Nezi 52
Matthew Olm 53
Noah Palm 54
Edoardo Pasolli 55
Jeroen Raes 56
Matthew R. Redinbo 57
Malte Rühlemann 58
R. Balfour Sartor 59
Patrick D Schloss 60
Lynn Schriml 59
Eran Segal 61
Michelle Shardell 62
Thomas Sharpton 63
Ekaterina Smirnova 51
Harry Sokol 64
Justin L. Sonnenburg 56
Sujatha Srinivasan 65
Louise B Thingholm 65
Peter J Turnbaugh 66
Vaibhav Upadhyay 67, 68
Ramona L. Walls 69
Paul Wilmes 70
Takuji YAMADA 49
Georg Zeller 71
Mingyu Zhang 72
Zhao Ni 73
Liping Zhao 74
Wenjun Bao 75
Aedin Culhane 76
Viswanath Devanarayan 77
Joaquín Dopazo 78, 79
Xiaohui Fan 80
Matthias Fischer 81
Wendell Jones 82
Rebecca Kusko 83
Christopher E. Mason 84
Tim R. Mercer 85
Susanna-Assunta Sansone 86
Andreas Scherer 87
Leming Shi 88
Shraddha Thakkar 89
Weida Tong 90
Russ Wolfinger 8, 50
Christopher Hunter 91
Nicola Segata 92
Jennifer B Dowd 1
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Genentech, South San Francisco, USA
21
 
VistaMilk, Cork, Ireland
25
 
Microbiome and Cancer Division, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
26
 
Vidarium–Nutrition, Health and Wellness Research Center, Grupo Empresarial Nutresa, Medellin, Colombia
31
 
HK3 Lab, Rovereto, Italy
66
 
Critical PATH Institute, Tucson, USA
73
 
JMP Life Sciences, SAS Institute, Cary, USA
75
 
Eisai, Woodcliff Lake, USA
78
 
Experimental Pediatric Oncology, University Children’s Hospital, Cologne, Germany
80
 
Q2 Solutions-EA Genomics, Durham, USA
81
 
Immuneering, Cambridge, USA
87
 
Office of Computational Science, Office of Translational Sciences, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Washington, USA
89
 
Scientific Discovery and Genomics, SAS Institute, Cary, USA
90
 
GigaScience Database, BGI Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2021-11-17
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR18.333
CiteScore82.4
Impact factor50.0
ISSN10788956, 1546170X, 17447933
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Medicine
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. The STORMS tool provides guidance for concise and complete reporting of microbiome studies to facilitate manuscript preparation, peer review, reader comprehension of publications, and comparative analysis of published results.
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@article{2021_Mirzayi,
author = {Chloe Mirzayi and Audrey Renson and Fatima Zohra and Shaimaa Elsafoury and Ludwig Geistlinger and Lora J. Kasselman and Kelly Eckenrode and Janneke van de Wijgert and Amy Loughman and Francine Z. Marques and David A. MacIntyre and Manimozhiyan Arumugam and Rimsha Azhar and Francesco Beghini and Kirk Bergstrom and Ami Bhatt and Jordan E. Bisanz and Jonathan Braun and Héctor Corrada Bravo and Gregory A. Buck and Frederic Bushman and David Casero and Gerard Clarke and Maria Carmen Collado and Paul D. Cotter and John F. Cryan and Ryan T Demmer and Suzanne Devkota and Eran Elinav and Juan S Escobar and Jennifer Fettweis and Robert D. Finn and Anthony A. Fodor and Sofia Forslund and Andre Franke and CESARE FURLANELLO and Jack Gilbert and Elizabeth Grice and Benjamin Haibe-Kains and Scott Handley and Pamela Herd and Susan Holmes and Jonathan P. Jacobs and Lisa Karstens and Rob Knight and Dan Knights and Omry Koren and Douglas S. Kwon and Morgan Langille and Brianna Lindsay and others},
title = {Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist},
journal = {Nature Medicine},
year = {2021},
volume = {27},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {nov},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x},
number = {11},
pages = {1885--1892},
doi = {10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x}
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Mirzayi, Chloe, et al. “Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist.” Nature Medicine, vol. 27, no. 11, Nov. 2021, pp. 1885-1892. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x.