Standardizing data reporting in the research community to enhance the utility of open data for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance
Standardizing data reporting in the research community to enhance the utility of open data for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance
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DOI：
10.1039/d1ew00235j
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发表时间：
2021-07-16
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5
通讯作者：
Vela, Jeseth Delgado
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作者：
McClary-Gutierrez, Jill S.;Aanderud, Zachary T.;Vela, Jeseth Delgado
废水中的SARS-CoV-2 RNA检测正在迅速发展，并作为全球公共卫生监测工具。随着废水监测计划在许多不同的规模和许多不同的利益相关者中实施，收集和共享的数据必须伴随着适当的最低量的元信息，以实现对这种新信息源的有意义的解释和使用以及跨数据集的相互比较。虽然一些数据库正在为地方、区域、国家和国际的特定监测项目开发，但研究界尚未建立全球通用的数据标准。建立这样的标准将需要国家和国际上就SARS-CoV-2废水测量应附带哪些元信息达成共识。为向研究界提出报告废水中发生SARS-CoV-2的最低信息建议，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的SARS-CoV-2废水监测研究协调网络于2021年2月举办了一个研讨会，与会者来自学术界、政府机构、私营公司、废水公用事业、公共卫生实验室和研究机构。本报告介绍了研讨会的两个主要成果：（一）关于自信地解释废水SARS-CoV-2数据所需的一套最低元信息的建议，以及（二）研讨会讨论中关于如何改进数据报告标准化的见解。
SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in wastewater is being rapidly developed and adopted as a public health monitoring tool worldwide. With wastewater surveillance programs being implemented across many different scales and by many different stakeholders, it is critical that data collected and shared are accompanied by an appropriate minimal amount of meta-information to enable meaningful interpretation and use of this new information source and intercomparison across datasets. While some databases are being developed for specific surveillance programs locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, common globally-adopted data standards have not yet been established within the research community. Establishing such standards will require national and international consensus on what meta-information should accompany SARS-CoV-2 wastewater measurements. To establish a recommendation on minimum information to accompany reporting of SARS-CoV-2 occurrence in wastewater for the research community, the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Coordination Network on Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 hosted a workshop in February 2021 with participants from academia, government agencies, private companies, wastewater utilities, public health laboratories, and research institutes. This report presents the primary two outcomes of the workshop: (i) a recommendation on the set of minimum meta-information that is needed to confidently interpret wastewater SARS-CoV-2 data, and (ii) insights from workshop discussions on how to improve standardization of data reporting.