Citation
Mirzayi, Chloe; Renson, Audrey; Zohra, Fatima; Elsafoury, Shaimaa; Geistlinger, Ludwig; Kasselman, Lora J.; Eckenrode, Kelly; van de Wijgert, Janneke; Loughman, Amy; & Marques, Francine Z., et al. (2021). Reporting Guidelines for Human Microbiome Research: The STORMS Checklist. Nature Medicine, 27(11), 1885-1892. PMCID: PMC9105086Abstract
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.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01552-xReference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2021Journal Title
Nature MedicineAuthor(s)
Mirzayi, ChloeRenson, Audrey
Zohra, Fatima
Elsafoury, Shaimaa
Geistlinger, Ludwig
Kasselman, Lora J.
Eckenrode, Kelly
van de Wijgert, Janneke
Loughman, Amy
Marques, Francine Z.
MacIntyre, David A.
Arumugam, Manimozhiyan
Azhar, Rimsha
Beghini, Francesco
Bergstrom, Kirk
Bhatt, Ami
Bisanz, Jordan E.
Braun, Jonathan
Bravo, Hector Corrada
Buck, Gregory A.
Bushman, Frederic
Casero, David
Clarke, Gerard
Collado, Maria C.
Cotter, Paul D.
Cryan, John F.
Demmer, Ryan T.
Devkota, Suzanne
Elinav, Eran
Escobar, Juan S.
Fettweis, Jennifer
Finn, Robert D.
Fodor, Anthony A.
Forslund, Sofia
Franke, Andre
Furlanello, Cesare
Gilbert, Jack
Grice, Elizabeth
Haibe-Kains, Benjamin
Handley, Scott
Herd, Pamela
Holmes, Susan
Jacobs, Jonathan P.
Karstens, Lisa
Knight, Rob
Knights, Dan
Koren, Omry
Kwon, Douglas S.
Langille, Morgan
Lindsay, Brianna
McGovern, Dermot
McHardy, Alice C.
McWeeney, Shannon
Mueller, Noel T.
Nezi, Luigi
Olm, Matthew
Palm, Noah
Pasolli, Edoardo
Raes, Jeroen
Redinbo, Matthew R.
Rühlemann, Malte
Balfour Sartor, R.
Schloss, Patrick D.
Schriml, Lynn
Segal, Eran
Shardell, Michelle
Sharpton, Thomas
Smirnova, Ekaterina
Sokol, Harry
Sonnenburg, Justin L.
Srinivasan, Sujatha
Thingholm, Louise B.
Turnbaugh, Peter J.
Upadhyay, Vaibhav
Walls, Ramona L.
Wilmes, Paul
Yamada, Takuji
Zeller, Georg
Zhang, Mingyu
Zhao, Ni
Zhao, Liping
Bao, Wenjun
Culhane, Aedin
Devanarayan, Viswanath
Dopazo, Joaquin
Fan, Xiaohui
Fischer, Matthias
Jones, Wendell
Kusko, Rebecca
Mason, Christopher E.
Mercer, Tim R.
Sansone, Susanna-Assunta
Scherer, Andreas
Shi, Leming
Thakkar, Shraddha
Tong, Weida
Wolfinger, Russ
Hunter, Christopher
Segata, Nicola
Huttenhower, Curtis
Dowd, Jennifer Beam
Jones, Heidi E.
Waldron, Levi