Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, Institute for Implementation Science in Public Health, New York, NY, USA

Chloe Mirzayi, Fatima Zohra, Shaimaa Elsafoury, Ludwig Geistlinger, Lora J. Kasselman, Kelly Eckenrode, Rimsha Azhar, Heidi E. Jones & Levi Waldron

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Audrey Renson

Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Janneke van de Wijgert

Food & Mood Centre, The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Amy Loughman

Hypertension Research Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Francine Z. Marques

Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK

David A. MacIntyre

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Manimozhiyan Arumugam

Department CIBIO, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Francesco Beghini & Nicola Segata

Department of Biology, University of British Columbia–Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Kirk Bergstrom

Division of Hematology and Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Department of Medicine, and Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Ami Bhatt

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Jordan E. Bisanz

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Cedars–Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jonathan Braun

Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA

Hector Corrada Bravo

Center for Microbiome Engineering and Data Analysis, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Gregory A. Buck & Jennifer Fettweis

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Frederic Bushman

F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars–Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

David Casero, Suzanne Devkota & Dermot McGovern

Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science, and APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Gerard Clarke

Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology-National Research Council, Valencia, Spain

Maria Carmen Collado

Teagasc Food Research Centre–Moorepark, Cork, Ireland

Paul D. Cotter

APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Paul D. Cotter & John F. Cryan

VistaMilk, Cork, Ireland

Paul D. Cotter

Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

John F. Cryan

School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Ryan T. Demmer

Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Eran Elinav

Microbiome and Cancer Division, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

Eran Elinav

Vidarium–Nutrition, Health and Wellness Research Center, Grupo Empresarial Nutresa, Medellin, Colombia

Juan S. Escobar

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK

Robert D. Finn

Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA

Anthony A. Fodor

Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Sofia Forslund

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

Andre Franke

HK3 Lab, Rovereto, Italy

Cesare Furlanello & Cesare Furlanello

Department of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Jack Gilbert

Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Elizabeth Grice

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Scott Handley

McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

Pamela Herd

Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Susan Holmes

Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jonathan P. Jacobs

Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

Lisa Karstens

Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Rob Knight

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Dan Knights

Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA

Dan Knights

Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar Ilan University, Safed, Israel

Omry Koren

Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Douglas S. Kwon

Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Morgan Langille

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA

Brianna Lindsay

Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Brunswick, Germany

Alice C. McHardy

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, USA

Shannon McWeeney

Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

Noel T. Mueller & Mingyu Zhang

Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico–Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milan, Italy

Luigi Nezi & Nicola Segata

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Matthew Olm & Justin L. Sonnenburg

Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Noah Palm

Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

Edoardo Pasolli

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega institute, KU Leuven and VIB Center for Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium

Jeroen Raes

Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Matthew R. Redinbo

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Malte Rühlemann & Louise B. Thingholm

Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

R. Balfour Sartor

Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Patrick D. Schloss

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, Baltimore, MD, USA

Lynn Schriml & Michelle Shardell

Department of Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Eran Segal

Department of Microbiology and Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA

Thomas Sharpton

Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Ekaterina Smirnova

Gastroenterology Department, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, INSERM, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Saint Antoine Hospital, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Harry Sokol

Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Sujatha Srinivasan

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Peter J. Turnbaugh & Vaibhav Upadhyay

Critical Path Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA

Ramona L. Walls

Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Paul Wilmes

Department of Life Sciences and Medicine, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Paul Wilmes

Department of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Takuji Yamada

Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Georg Zeller

Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

Ni Zhao

Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Liping Zhao

JMP Life Sciences, SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA

Wenjun Bao

Department of Data Sciences, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

Aedin Culhane

Eisai, Woodcliff Lake, NJ, USA

Viswanath Devanarayan

Clinical Bioinformatics Area, Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain

Joaquin Dopazo

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Xiaohui Fan

Experimental Pediatric Oncology, University Children’s Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Matthias Fischer

Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Matthias Fischer

Q2 Solutions-EA Genomics, Durham, NC, USA

Wendell Jones

Immuneering, Cambridge, MA, USA

Rebecca Kusko

Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Christopher E. Mason

Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Tim R. Mercer

Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Susanna-Assunta Sansone & Susanna-Assunta Sansone

Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Andreas Scherer

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Human Phenome Institute, School of Life Sciences and Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Leming Shi

Office of Computational Science, Office of Translational Sciences, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Washington, DC, USA

Shraddha Thakkar

Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, Food & Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR, USA

Weida Tong

Scientific Discovery and Genomics, SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA

Russ Wolfinger

GigaScience Database, BGI Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Christopher Hunter

Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Curtis Huttenhower

Department of Sociology, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Jennifer B. Dowd