Future-Proofing Your Microbiology Resource Announcements Genome Assembly for Reproducibility and Clarity

David A Baltrus; Christina A Cuomo; John J Dennehy; Julie C Dunning Hotopp; Julia A Maresca; Irene L G Newton; David A Rasko; Antonis Rokas; Simon Roux; Jason E Stajich

doi:10.1128/MRA.00954-19

Future-Proofing Your Microbiology Resource Announcements Genome Assembly for Reproducibility and Clarity

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Sep 5;8(36):e00954-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00954-19.

Authors

David A Baltrus¹, Christina A Cuomo², John J Dennehy^{3

4}, Julie C Dunning Hotopp^{5

6

7}, Julia A Maresca⁸, Irene L G Newton⁹, David A Rasko^{5

6}, Antonis Rokas^{10

11

12}, Simon Roux¹³, Jason E Stajich¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA baltrus@email.arizona.edu.
² Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Queens College of The City University of New York, Queens, New York, USA.
⁴ The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁷ Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁸ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.
⁹ Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
¹² Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
¹³ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.

Abstract

Descriptions of resources, like the genome assemblies reported in Microbiology Resource Announcements, are often frozen at their time of publication, yet they will need to be interpreted in the midst of continually evolving technologies. It is therefore important to ensure that researchers accessing published resources have access to all of the information required to repeat, interpret, and extend these original analyses. Here, we provide a set of suggestions to help make certain that published resources remain useful and repeatable for the foreseeable future.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

U19 AI110820/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States