ArticleNature biotechnology2017
Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea.
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Robert M BowersDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Nikos C KyrpidesDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Ramunas StepanauskasBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4458-3108
Miranda Harmon-SmithDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Devin DoudDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
T B K ReddyDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Frederik SchulzDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4932-4677
Jessica JarettDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Adam R RiversDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Emiley A Eloe-FadroshDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Susannah G TringeDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6479-8427
Natalia N IvanovaDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Alex CopelandDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Alicia ClumDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Eric D BecraftBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, Maine, USA.
Rex R MalmstromDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Bruce BirrenBroad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Mircea PodarBiosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oakridge Tennessee, USA.
Peer BorkStructural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
George M WeinstockThe Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA.
George M GarrityDepartment of Microbiology &Molecular Genetics, Biomedical Physical Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Jeremy A DodsworthDepartment of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA.
Shibu YoosephJ. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, California, USA.
Granger SuttonJ. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7498-8048
Frank O GlöcknerMicrobial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.
Jack A GilbertBiosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA.
William C NelsonBiological Sciences Division, Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.
Steven J HallamDepartment of Microbiology &Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sean P JungbluthDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9265-8341
Thijs J G EttemaDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Scott TigheAdvanced Genomics Lab, University of Vermont Cancer Center, Burlington Vermont, USA.
Konstantinos T KonstantinidisGeorgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Wen-Tso LiuDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Brett J BakerDepartment of Marine Science, University of Texas-Austin, Marine Science Institute, Austin, Texas, USA.
Thomas RatteiDepartment of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Jonathan A EisenGenome Center, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Brian HedlundSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Katherine D McMahonDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Noah FiererCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Rob KnightCenter for Microbiome Innovation, and Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science &Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0975-9019
Rob FinnEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Welcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Guy CochraneEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Welcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Ilene Karsch-MizrachiNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Gene W TysonAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Christian RinkeAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-1187
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Alla LapidusCentre for Algorithmic Biotechnology, ITBM, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0427-8731
Folker MeyerBiosciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA.
Pelin YilmazMicrobial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4724-323X
Donovan H ParksAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-9010
A M ErenKnapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9013-4827
Lynn SchrimlNational Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
Jillian F BanfieldDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Philip HugenholtzAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Tanja WoykeDepartment of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
Funding
Culturing of the uncultured: reverse genomics and multispecies consortia in oralR01DE024463 · NIDCR · UT-BATTELLE, LLC-OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB · PI JOULINE, IGOR B., LEYS, EUGENE J · 2014 to 2018
$8.2MContinued Development and Maintenance of the MG-RAST Metagenomics PipelineR01AI123037 · NIAID · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI GRAMA, ANANTH, MEYER, FOLKER · 2016 to 2020
$3.7MTargeted genomic characterization of uncultured bacteria from the human microbiotR01HG004857 · NHGRI · UT-BATTELLE, LLC-OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB · PI PODAR, MIRCEA · 2009 to 2011
$1.4MEuropean Research Council 310039NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG004857NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI123037NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE024463
Abstract
We present two standards developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) for reporting bacterial and archaeal genome sequences. Both are extensions of the Minimum Information about Any (x) Sequence (MIxS). The standards are the Minimum Information about a Single Amplified Genome (MISAG) and the Minimum Information about a Metagenome-Assembled Genome (MIMAG), including, but not limited to, assembly quality, and estimates of genome completeness and contamination. These standards can be used in combination with other GSC checklists, including the Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence (MIGS), Minimum Information about a Metagenomic Sequence (MIMS), and Minimum Information about a Marker Gene Sequence (MIMARKS). Community-wide adoption of MISAG and MIMAG will facilitate more robust comparative genomic analyses of bacterial and archaeal diversity.
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Genome, ArchaealGenome, BacterialGenomicsMetagenomicsSequence Analysis, DNA
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