Draft Genome Sequences of Various Bacterial Phyla Isolated from the International Space Station

Anna C Simpson; Camilla Urbaniak; Nitin K Singh; Jason M Wood; Marilyne Debieu; Niamh B O'Hara; Christopher E Mason; Kasthuri Venkateswaran

doi:10.1128/MRA.00214-21

Draft Genome Sequences of Various Bacterial Phyla Isolated from the International Space Station

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Apr 29;10(17):e00214-21. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00214-21.

Authors

Anna C Simpson¹, Camilla Urbaniak¹, Nitin K Singh¹, Jason M Wood¹, Marilyne Debieu², Niamh B O'Hara^{2

3}, Christopher E Mason^{4

5}, Kasthuri Venkateswaran⁶

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
² Biotia, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Cell Biology, College of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
⁴ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
⁶ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA kasthuri.j.venkateswaran@jpl.nasa.gov.

Abstract

Whole-genome sequences were generated from 96 bacterial strains of 14 species that were isolated from International Space Station surfaces during the Microbial Tracking 2 study. Continued characterization of this closed habitat's microbiome enables tracking of the spread and evolution of secondary pathogens, which is vital for astronaut health.