Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

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Title:	Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist
Creators Name:	Mirzayi, C., Renson, A., Zohra, F., Elsafoury, S., Geistlinger, L., Kasselman, L.J., Eckenrode, K., van de Wijgert, J., Loughman, A., Marques, F.Z., MacIntyre, D.A., Arumugam, M., Azhar, R., Beghini, F., Bergstrom, K., Bhatt, A., Bisanz, J.E., Braun, J., Bravo, H.C., Buck, G.A., Bushman, F., Casero, D., Clarke, G., Collado, M.C., Cotter, P.D., Cryan, J.F., Demmer, R.T., Devkota, S., Elinav, E., Escobar, J.S., Fettweis, J., Finn, R.D., Fodor, A.A., Forslund, S., Franke, A., Furlanello, C., Gilbert, J., Grice, E., Haibe-Kains, B., Handley, S., Herd, P., Holmes, S., Jacobs, J.P., Karstens, L., Knight, R., Knights, D., Koren, O., Kwon, D.S., Langille, M., Lindsay, B., McGovern, D., McHardy, A.C., McWeeney, S., Mueller, N.T., Nezi, L., Olm, M., Palm, N., Pasolli, E., Raes, J., Redinbo, M.R., Rühlemann, M., Balfour Sartor, R, Schloss, P.D., Schriml, L., Segal, E., Shardell, M., Sharpton, T., Smirnova, E., Sokol, H., Sonnenburg, J.L., Srinivasan, S., Thingholm, L.B., Turnbaugh, P.J., Upadhyay, V., Walls, R.L., Wilmes, P., Yamada, T., Zeller, G., Zhang, M., Zhao, N., Zhao, L., Bao, W., Culhane, A., Devanarayan, V., Dopazo, J., Fan, X., Fischer, M., Jones, W., Kusko, R., Mason, C.E., Mercer, T.R., Sansone, S.A., Scherer, A., Shi, L., Thakkar, S., Tong, W., Wolfinger, R., Hunter, C., Segata, N., Huttenhower, C., Dowd, J.B., Jones, H.E. and Waldron, L.
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.
Keywords:	Computational Biology, Dysbiosis, Microbiota, Observational Studies as Topic, Research Design, Biomedical Translational Science
Source:	Nature Medicine
ISSN:	1078-8956
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
Volume:	27
Number:	11
Page Range:	1885-1892
Date:	November 2021
Additional Information:	Copyright © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2021
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01552-x
External Fulltext:	View full text on PubMed Central
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