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)
Journal article, 2016
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).
Indoor fungi
Annotation
ITS
Built environment
Mycobiome
Author
Kessy Abarenkov
University of Tartu
Rachel I. Adams
University of California
Irinyi Laszlo
Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney
Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Ahto Agan
Estonian Institute of Ecology
Elia Ambrosio
Estonian Institute of Ecology
University of Tartu
Alexandre Antonelli
University of Gothenburg
Mohammad Bahram
Estonian Institute of Ecology
Evolutionary Biology Centre
Johan Bengtsson Palme
University of Gothenburg
Gunilla Bok
SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut AB
Patrik Cangren
University of Gothenburg
Victor R. M. Coimbra
University of Gothenburg
Claudia Coleine
Tuscia University
Claes G. R. Gustafsson
University of Gothenburg
Jinhong He
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tobias Hofmann
University of Gothenburg
Erik Kristiansson
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Statistics
University of Gothenburg
Ellen Larsson
University of Gothenburg
Tomas Larsson
University of Gothenburg
Yingkui Liu
University of Gothenburg
Svante Martinsson
University of Gothenburg
Wieland Meyer
Westmead Institute for Medical Research
The University of Sydney
Westmead Hospital
Marina Panova
University of Gothenburg
Nuttapon Pombubpa
University of California
Camila Ritter
University of Gothenburg
Martin Ryberg
Evolutionary Biology Centre
Sten Svantesson
University of Gothenburg
Ruud Scharn
University of Gothenburg
Ola Svensson
University of Gothenburg
Mats H. Töpel
University of Gothenburg
Martin Unterseher
University of Greifswald
Cobus Visagie
Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
University of Ottawa
Christian Wurzbacher
University of Gothenburg
Andy F.S. Taylor
The James Hutton Institute
University of Aberdeen
Urmas Kõljalg
University of Tartu
Estonian Institute of Ecology
Lynn Schriml
University of Maryland
R. Henrik Nilsson
University of Gothenburg
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1314-4057 (ISSN) 1314-4049 (eISSN)
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DOI
10.3897/mycokeys.16.10000