Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG)

Simon Roux (1) , Evelien M. Adriaenssens (2) , Bas E. Dutilh (3, 4) , Eugene V. Koonin (5) , Andrew M. Kropinski (6) , Mart Krupovic (7) , Jens H. Kuhn (8) , Rob Lavigne (9) , J. Rodney Brister (5) , Arvind Varsani (10, 11) , Clara Amid (12) , Ramy K. Aziz (13) , Seth R. Bordenstein (14) , Peer Bork (15) , Mya Breitbart (16) , Guy R. Cochrane (15) , Rebecca A. Daly (17) , Christelle Desnues (18) , Melissa B. Duhaime (19) , Joanne B. Emerson (20) , François Enault (21) , Jed A. Fuhrman (22) , Pascal Hingamp (23) , Philip Hugenholtz (24) , Bonnie L. Hurwitz (25) , Natalia N. Ivanova (1) , Jessica M. Labonté (26) , Kyung-Bum Lee (27) , Rex R. Malmstrom (1) , Manuel Martinez-Garcia (28) , Ilene Karsch Mizrachi (5) , Hiroyuki Ogata (29) , David Páez-Espino (1) , Marie-Agnès Petit (30) , Catherine Putonti (31) , Thomas Rattei (32) , Alejandro Reyes (33) , Francisco Rodriguez-Valera (34) , Karyna Rosario (16) , Lynn Schriml (35) , Frederik Schulz (1) , Grieg F. Steward (36) , Matthew B. Sullivan (37) , Shinichi Sunagawa (38) , Curtis A. Suttle (39) , Ben Temperton (40) , Susannah G. Tringe (1) , Rebecca Vega Thurber (41) , Nicole S. Webster (24, 42) , Katrine L. Whiteson (43) , Steven W. Wilhelm (44) , K. Eric Wommack (45) , Tanja Woyke (1) , Kelly C. Wrighton (17) , Pelin Yilmaz (46) , Takashi Yoshida (29) , Mark J. Young (47) , Natalya Yutin (5) , Lisa Zeigler Allen (48, 49) , Nikos C. Kyrpides (1) , Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh (1)

1 DOE Joint Genome Institute [Walnut Creek]
2 University of Liverpool
3 Theoretical Biology & Bioinformatics [Utrecht]
4 Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen]
5 NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information
6 University of Guelph
7 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles
8 NIAID-NIH - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [Bethesda]
9 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
10 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
11 University of Cape Town
12 EMBL-EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton]
13 Cairo University
14 Vanderbilt University [Nashville]
15 EMBL - European Molecular Biology Laboratory [Heidelberg]
16 USF - University of South Florida [Tampa]
17 CSU - Colorado State University [Fort Collins]
18 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections
19 University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]
20 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
21 LMGE - Laboratoire Microorganismes : Génome et Environnement
22 USC - University of Southern California
23 MIO - Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie
24 University of Queensland [Brisbane]
25 University of Arizona
26 Texas A&M University [Galveston]
27 NIG - National Institute of Genetics
28 Universidad de Alicante
29 Kyoto University
30 MICALIS - MICrobiologie de l'ALImentation au Service de la Santé
31 University of Chicago
32 Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science [Vienna]
33 UNIANDES - Universidad de los Andes [Bogota]
34 UMH - Universidad Miguel Hernández [Elche]
35 University of Maryland School of Medicine
36 UHM - University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa]
37 OSU - Ohio State University [Columbus]
38 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
39 UBC - University of British Columbia
40 University of Exeter
41 OSU - Oregon State University
42 AIMS Townsville - Australian Institute of Marine Science [Townsville]
43 UC Irvine - University of California [Irvine]
44 The University of Tennessee [Knoxville]
45 University of Delaware [Newark]
46 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
47 MSU - Montana State University
48 J. Craig Venter Institute
49 UC San Diego - University of California [San Diego]

We present an extension of the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS) standard for reporting sequences of uncultivated virus genomes. Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG) standards were developed within the Genomic Standards Consortium framework and include virus origin, genome quality, genome annotation, taxonomic classification, biogeographic distribution and in silico host prediction. Community-wide adoption of MIUViG standards, which complement the Minimum Information about a Single Amplified Genome (MISAG) and Metagenome-Assembled Genome (MIMAG) standards for uncultivated bacteria and archaea, will improve the reporting of uncultivated virus genomes in public databases. In turn, this should enable more robust comparative studies and a systematic exploration of the global virosphere.

Keywords: commitee; prediction; annotation; pipeline; discovery; tacomony; phage; dna viruses

Keywords: dynamics; metagenomics

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Simon Roux, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Bas E. Dutilh, Eugene V. Koonin, Andrew M. Kropinski, et al.. Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nature Biotechnology, 2019, 37 (1), pp.29-37. ⟨10.1038/nbt.4306⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977322⟩