TY - JOUR
T1 - Annotating public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment according to the MIxS-Built Environment standard - A report from a May 23-24, 2016 workshop (Gothenburg, Sweden)
AU - Abarenkov, Kessy
AU - Adams, Rachel I.
AU - Irinyi, Laszlo
AU - Agan, Ahto
AU - Ambrosio, Elia
AU - Antonelli, Alexandre
AU - Bahram, Mohammad
AU - Bengtsson-Palme, Johan
AU - Bok, Gunilla
AU - Cangren, Patrik
AU - Coimbra, Victor
AU - Coleine, Claudia
AU - Gustafsson, Claes
AU - He, Jinhong
AU - Hofmann, Tobias
AU - Kristiansson, Erik
AU - Larsson, Ellen
AU - Larsson, Tomas
AU - Liu, Yingkui
AU - Martinsson, Svante
AU - Meyer, Wieland
AU - Panova, Marina
AU - Pombubpa, Nuttapon
AU - Ritter, Camila
AU - Ryberg, Martin
AU - Svantesson, Sten
AU - Scharn, Ruud
AU - Svensson, Ola
AU - Töpel, Mats
AU - Unterseher, Martin
AU - Visagie, Cobus
AU - Wurzbacher, Christian
AU - Taylor, Andy F.S.
AU - Kõljalg, Urmas
AU - Schriml, Lynn
AU - Nilsson, R. Henrik
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Swedish Research Council of Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning (FORMAS, 215-2011-498). VRMC thanks CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (SWE 232695/2014-8) for providing a shared Ph.D. scholarship. A.A. is funded by the Swedish Research Council (B0569601), the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013, ERC Grant Agreement n. 331024), and a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship.
PY - 2016/9/16
Y1 - 2016/9/16
N2 - Recent molecular studies have identified substantial fungal diversity in indoor environments. Fungi and fungal particles have been linked to a range of potentially unwanted effects in the built environment, including asthma, decay of building materials, and food spoilage. The study of the built mycobiome is hampered by a number of constraints, one of which is the poor state of the metadata annotation of fungal DNA sequences from the built environment in public databases. In order to enable precise interrogation of such data - for example, "retrieve all fungal sequences recovered from bathrooms" - a workshop was organized at the University of Gothenburg (May 23-24, 2016) to annotate public fungal barcode (ITS) sequences according to the MIxS-Built Environment annotation standard (http://gensc.org/mixs/). The 36 participants assembled a total of 45,488 data points from the published literature, including the addition of 8,430 instances of countries of collection from a total of 83 countries, 5,801 instances of building types, and 3,876 instances of surface-air contaminants. The results were implemented in the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi (http://unite.ut.ee) and were shared with other online resources. Data obtained from human/animal pathogenic fungi will furthermore be verified on culture based metadata for subsequent inclusion in the ISHAM-ITS database (http://its.mycologylab.org).
AB - Recent molecular studies have identified substantial fungal diversity in indoor environments. Fungi and fungal particles have been linked to a range of potentially unwanted effects in the built environment, including asthma, decay of building materials, and food spoilage. The study of the built mycobiome is hampered by a number of constraints, one of which is the poor state of the metadata annotation of fungal DNA sequences from the built environment in public databases. In order to enable precise interrogation of such data - for example, "retrieve all fungal sequences recovered from bathrooms" - a workshop was organized at the University of Gothenburg (May 23-24, 2016) to annotate public fungal barcode (ITS) sequences according to the MIxS-Built Environment annotation standard (http://gensc.org/mixs/). The 36 participants assembled a total of 45,488 data points from the published literature, including the addition of 8,430 instances of countries of collection from a total of 83 countries, 5,801 instances of building types, and 3,876 instances of surface-air contaminants. The results were implemented in the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi (http://unite.ut.ee) and were shared with other online resources. Data obtained from human/animal pathogenic fungi will furthermore be verified on culture based metadata for subsequent inclusion in the ISHAM-ITS database (http://its.mycologylab.org).
KW - Annotation
KW - Built environment
KW - Indoor fungi
KW - ITS
KW - Mycobiome
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85006986456&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3897/mycokeys.16.10000
DO - 10.3897/mycokeys.16.10000
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006986456
SN - 1314-4057
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - MycoKeys
JF - MycoKeys
ER -