The “Minimum Information about an ENvironmental Sequence” (MIENS) specification

Authors and Affiliations

1. NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology https://www.nature.com/nature

   Peter Sterk

2. Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University https://www.nature.com/nature

   Jeffrey Gordon, Bruce Birren & Doyle Ward

3. Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine https://www.nature.com/nature

   Owen White, Jennifer Wortmann, Heather Huot-Creasy, Jacques Ravel, Lynn Schriml & Michelle Gwinn Giglio

4. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) https://www.nature.com/nature

   Anjanette Johnston & Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi

5. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado https://www.nature.com/nature

   Sara Nakielny, Doug Wendel, Jerry Kennedy, Elizabeth Costello, Robert Larsen, Catherine Lozupone & Jesse Stombaugh

6. Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine https://www.nature.com/nature

   George Weinstock & Erica Sodergren

7. Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory https://www.nature.com/nature

   Mani Arumugam & Peer Bork

8. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado https://www.nature.com/nature

   Robert Guralnick, Noah Fierer & Teresa Legg

9. J. Craig Venter Institute https://www.nature.com/nature

   Josh Neufeld

10. Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory https://www.nature.com/nature

    Andreas Wilke, Elizabeth Glass & Folker Meyer

11. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) https://www.nature.com/nature

    Guy Cochrane, Robert Vaughan & Christopher Hunter

12. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado https://www.nature.com/nature

    Karen Nelson & Barbara Methé

13. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado https://www.nature.com/nature

    Laura Baumgartner, Norman Pace & Justin Kuczynski

14. DOE Joint Genome Institute https://www.nature.com/nature

    Philip Hugenholtz & Nikos Kyrpides

15. Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology; Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH https://www.nature.com/nature

    Wolfgang Hankeln & Pier Luigi Buttigieg

16. Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München https://www.nature.com/nature

    Diana Nemergut

17. National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health https://www.nature.com/nature

    Vivien Bonazzi & Jane Peterson

18. Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine https://www.nature.com/nature

    Janet Jansson

19. Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine; Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine https://www.nature.com/nature

    Sarah Highlander & Joseph Petrosino

20. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado https://www.nature.com/nature

    Giriprakash Palanisamy

21. Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

    Frank Oliver Glöckner, Pelin Yilmaz & Renzo Kottmann

22. Department of Medicine and the Department of Microbiology, New York University https://www.nature.com/nature

    Martin Blaser

23. Department of Biology, University of Waterloo https://www.nature.com/nature

    Jörg Peplies

24. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado https://www.nature.com/nature

    Dan Knights & Antonio Gonzalez

25. DOE Joint Genome Institute; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division https://www.nature.com/nature

    Patrick Chain

26. Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine https://www.nature.com/nature

    Omry Koren, Ruth Ley & Aymé Spor

27. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory https://www.nature.com/nature

    Lita Proctor

28. Ribocon GmbH https://www.nature.com/nature

    Jeroen Raes

29. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University https://www.nature.com/nature

    Peter Dawyndt

30. VIB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario https://www.nature.com/nature

    David Relman

31. The National Science Foundation https://www.nature.com/nature

    Sujeevan Ratnasingham

32. Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory https://www.nature.com/nature

    Todd DeSantis

33. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI); Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford https://www.nature.com/nature

    Susanna Assunta-Sansone & Eamonn Maguire

34. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Science Division https://www.nature.com/nature

    Christian Lauber & Donna Lyons

35. National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) https://www.nature.com/nature

    Rachel Gallery

36. Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine https://www.nature.com/nature

    Richard Gibbs

37. NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, UK

    Dawn Field

38. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California https://www.nature.com/nature

    Jed Fuhrman

39. Department of Microbiology, Cornell University https://www.nature.com/nature

    Wolfgang Ludwig

40. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    Rob Knight

41. Ribosomal Database Project, Michigan State University https://www.nature.com/nature

    James Cole

42. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico https://www.nature.com/nature

    Inigo San Gil

43. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University https://www.nature.com/nature

    Joonhong Park

44. The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory https://www.nature.com/nature

    Linda Amaral-Zettler

45. Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University https://www.nature.com/nature

    James Tiedje

46. Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory; Dept of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago https://www.nature.com/nature

    Jack Gilbert

47. NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre, Oxford Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester https://www.nature.com/nature

    Norman Morrison

48. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Outstation, Europe; Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford https://www.nature.com/nature

    Phillipe Rocca-Serra

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Correspondence to Frank Oliver Glöckner.

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