ArticleiScience2022
A history of the MetaSUB consortium: Tracking urban microbes around the globe.
Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Considerations for the design of impactful citizen-science projects in microbiome research.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Diversity and distinctive characteristics of the global RNA virome in urban and peri-urban environments.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Editorial for the Special Issue "The Urban Microbiome".Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Moving from a taxonomic to a functional perspective in global microbiome analysis requires optimizing multiplexing ratios.mSystems · 2026Article
- Shotgun metagenomic dataset of surface microbiomes at a train station in Shinagawa, Tokyo.BMC genomic data · 2026Article
- Spatial and temporal patterns of public transit aerobiomes.Microbiome · 2026Article
- Genome-resolved surveillance and predictive ecological risk modeling of urban microbiomes.Microbiome · 2025Article
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- DRAMMA: a multifaceted machine learning approach for novel antimicrobial resistance gene detection in metagenomic data.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial resistance in diverse urban microbiomes: uncovering patterns and predictive markers.Frontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- Metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes from tidal lagoons at a New York City waterfront park.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Bacterial diversity and biomarkers screening of station and carriage surface in Shanghai metro system, China.Current research in microbial sciences · 2025Article
- Analysis of metagenomic data.Nature reviews. Methods primers · 2025Article
- The Bicocca sampling days model: a participatory citizen science approach to environmental microbiome research and education.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Rapid In-Field Detection of Airborne Pathogens Using Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP).Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Microbiome Geographic Population Structure (mGPS) Detects Fine-Scale Geography.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Discovery and description of novel phage genomes from urban microbiomes sampled by the MetaSUB consortium.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Evolution of Diagnostic and Forensic Microbiology in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.Cureus · 2023Review
- The microbial biodiversity at the archeological site of Tel Megiddo (Israel).Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- The Microbiome of the Built Environment: The Nexus for Urban Regeneration for the Cities of Tomorrow.Microorganisms · 2022Article
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34 authors at 20 institutions in 20 countries.
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Abstract
The MetaSUB Consortium, founded in 2015, is a global consortium with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, scientists, bioinformaticians, engineers, and designers, with members from more than 100 countries across the globe. This network has continually collected samples from urban and rural sites including subways and transit systems, sewage systems, hospitals, and other environmental sampling. These collections have been ongoing since 2015 and have continued when possible, even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The consortium has optimized their workflow for the collection, isolation, and sequencing of DNA and RNA collected from these various sites and processing them for metagenomics analysis, including the identification of SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. Here, the Consortium describes its foundations, and its ongoing work to expand on this network and to focus its scope on the mapping, annotation, and prediction of emerging pathogens, mapping microbial evolution and antibiotic resistance, and the discovery of novel organisms and biosynthetic gene clusters.
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