Drinking Water Microbiome Project: Is it Time?

Natalie M. Hull; Fangqiong Ling; Ameet J. Pinto; Mads Albertsen; H. Grace Jang; Pei Ying Hong; Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis; Mark LeChevallier; Rita R. Colwell; Wen Tso Liu

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2019.03.011

Drinking Water Microbiome Project: Is it Time?

Natalie M. Hull, Fangqiong Ling, Ameet J. Pinto, Mads Albertsen, H. Grace Jang, Pei Ying Hong, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Mark LeChevallier, Rita R. Colwell, Wen Tso Liu^*

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Abstract

Now is an opportune time to foster collaborations across sectors and geographical boundaries to enable development of best practices for drinking water (DW) microbiome research, focusing on accuracy and reproducibility of meta-omic techniques (while learning from past microbiome projects). A large-scale coordinated effort that builds on this foundation will enable the urgently needed comprehensive spatiotemporal understanding and control of DW microbiomes by engineering interventions to protect public health. This opinion paper highlights the need to initiate and conduct a large-scale coordinated DW microbiome project by addressing key knowledge gaps and recommends a roadmap for this effort.

Original language	English
Journal	Trends in Microbiology
Volume	27
Issue number	8
Pages (from-to)	670-677
Number of pages	8
ISSN	0966-842X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2019.03.011
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019

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meta-omics
microbial ecology
microbiome

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