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ArticleNature biotechnology2024

Greengenes2 unifies microbial data in a single reference tree.

Daniel McDonald, Yueyu Jiang, Metin Balaban, Kalen Cantrell, Qiyun Zhu, Antonio Gonzalez, James T Morton, Giorgia Nicolaou, Donovan H Parks, Søren M Karst and 15 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 402 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

402 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Daniel McDonaldDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Yueyu JiangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Metin BalabanBioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Kalen CantrellDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Qiyun ZhuSchool of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3568-6271
Antonio GonzalezDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.
James T MortonBiostatistics & Bioinformatics Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Giorgia NicolaouHalicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Donovan H ParksAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6662-9010
Søren M KarstDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Mads AlbertsenDepartment of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6151-190X
Philip HugenholtzAustralian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5386-7925
Todd DeSantisDepartment of Informatics, Second Genome, Brisbane, CA, USA.
Se Jin SongCenter for Microbiome Innovation, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Andrew BartkoCenter for Microbiome Innovation, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1237-2747
Aki S HavulinnaFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-8959
Pekka JousilahtiFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Susan ChengDivision of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Michael InouyeCambridge Baker Systems Genomics Initiative, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Teemu NiiranenFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Mohit JainSapient Bioanalytics, LLC, San Diego, CA, USA.
Veikko SalomaaFinnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7563-5324
Leo LahtiDepartment of Computing, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Siavash MirarabDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5410-1518
Rob KnightDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA. robknight@eng.ucsd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0975-9019

Funding

National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (NCRAD)U24AG021886 · NIA · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI TATIANA M. FOROUD · 2002 to 2026
$119.8M
Project 4 - Mechanistic studies on the role of the gut microbiome in models for Alzheimer's diseaseU19AG063744 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI Rima F Kaddurah-Daouk · 2019 to 2026
$54.1M
The UCSD Microbiome and Metagenomics Center (Summit Supplement)U24DK131617 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Jack Anthony Gilbert, ROB KNIGHT · 2022 to 2026
$15.3M
Mapping host-microbe-metabolite interactions in 3D to find diet-derived enhancers of immunityDP1AT010885 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KNIGHT, ROB · 2019 to 2023
$5.5M
Biology-aware machine learning methods for characterizing microbiome genotype and phenotypeR35GM142725 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI MIR ARABBAYGI, SIAVASH · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID 20385.09National Science Foundation (NSF) XSEDE BIO210103NCCIH NIH HHS DP1 AT010885NIA NIH HHS U19 AG063744NIA NIH HHS U24 AG021886NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK131617NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM142725U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1R35GM142725U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) DP1-AT010885U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) U19AG063744U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) U24DK131617
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies using 16S rRNA and shotgun metagenomics typically yield different results, usually attributed to PCR amplification biases. We introduce Greengenes2, a reference tree that unifies genomic and 16S rRNA databases in a consistent, integrated resource. By inserting sequences into a whole-genome phylogeny, we show that 16S rRNA and shotgun metagenomic data generated from the same samples agree in principal coordinates space, taxonomy and phenotype effect size when analyzed with the same tree.

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MetagenomicsPhylogenyRNA, Ribosomal, 16SBacteriaDatabases, GeneticMetagenomeRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID37500913
PMCPMC10818020

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