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The microbiome quality control project: baseline study design and future directions

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Biology, December 2015
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Title
The microbiome quality control project: baseline study design and future directions
Published in
Genome Biology, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13059-015-0841-8
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Authors

Rashmi Sinha, Christian C. Abnet, Owen White, Rob Knight, Curtis Huttenhower

Abstract

Microbiome research has grown exponentially over the past several years, but studies have been difficult to reproduce across investigations. Relevant variation in measurements between laboratories, from a variety of sources, has not been systematically assessed. This is coupled with a growing concern in the scientific community about the lack of reproducibility in biomedical research. The Microbiome Quality Control project (MBQC) was initiated to identify sources of variation in microbiome studies, to quantify their magnitudes, and to assess the design and utility of different positive and negative control strategies. Here we report on the first MBQC baseline study project and workshop.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 2%
Germany 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 357 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 80 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 74 20%
Student > Master 54 14%
Student > Bachelor 27 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 20 5%
Other 66 18%
Unknown 55 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 131 35%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 75 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 24 6%
Computer Science 12 3%
Other 45 12%
Unknown 61 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 April 2023.
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#858,830
of 25,452,734 outputs
Outputs from Genome Biology
#571
of 4,476 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,364
of 395,698 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Genome Biology
#18
of 72 outputs
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