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ReviewNature microbiology2023

Challenges and opportunities in sharing microbiome data and analyses.

Curtis Huttenhower, Robert D Finn, Alice Carolyn McHardy

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Review in Nature microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Curtis HuttenhowerHarvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu.
Robert D FinnEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8626-2148
Alice Carolyn McHardyComputational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany. Alice.McHardy@helmholtz-hzi.de.ORCID 0000-0003-2370-3430

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 460129525
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbiome data, metadata and analytical workflows have become 'big' in terms of volume and complexity. Although the infrastructure and technologies to share data have been established, the interdisciplinary and multi-omic nature of the field can make resources difficult to identify and use. Following best practices for data deposition requires substantial effort, with sometimes little obvious reward. Gaps remain where microbiome-specific resources for data sharing or reproducibility do not yet exist. We outline available best practices, challenges to their adoption and opportunities in data sharing in microbiome research. We showcase examples of best practices and advocate for their enforcement and incentivization for data sharing. This includes recognition of data curation and sharing endeavours by individuals, institutions, journals and funders. Opportunities for progress include enabling microbiome-specific databases to incorporate future methods for data analysis, integration and reuse.

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MicrobiotaTechnologyDatabases, FactualHumansInformation DisseminationReproducibility of Results

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