TY - JOUR T1 - Annotating public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment according to the MIxS-Built Environment standard – a report from a May 23-24, 2016 workshop (Gothenburg, Sweden) JF - MycoKeys JO - MC M3 - 10.3897/mycokeys.16.10000 VL - 16 AU - Abarenkov, Kessy AU - Adams, Rachel I. AU - Laszlo, Irinyi AU - Agan, Ahto AU - Ambrosio, Elia AU - Antonelli, Alexandre AU - Bahram, Mohammad AU - Bengtsson-Palme, Johan AU - Bok, Gunilla AU - Cangren, Patrik AU - Coimbra, Victor AU - Coleine, Claudia AU - Gustafsson, Claes AU - He, Jinhong AU - Hofmann, Tobias AU - Kristiansson, Erik AU - Larsson, Ellen AU - Larsson, Tomas AU - Liu, Yingkui AU - Martinsson, Svante AU - Meyer, Wieland AU - Panova, Marina AU - Pombubpa, Nuttapon AU - Ritter, Camila AU - Ryberg, Martin AU - Svantesson, Sten AU - Scharn, Ruud AU - Svensson, Ola AU - Töpel, Mats AU - Unterseher, Martin AU - Visagie, Cobus AU - Wurzbacher, Christian AU - Taylor, Andy F.S. AU - Kõljalg, Urmas AU - Schriml, Lynn AU - Nilsson, R. Henrik Y1 - 26/09/2016 UR - https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.16.10000 N2 - Recent molecular studies have identified substantial fungal diversity in indoor environments. Fungi and fungal particles have been linked to a range of potentially unwanted effects in the built environment, including asthma, decay of building materials, and food spoilage. The study of the built mycobiome is hampered by a number of constraints, one of which is the poor state of the metadata annotation of fungal DNA sequences from the built environment in public databases. In order to enable precise interrogation of such data – for example, “retrieve all fungal sequences recovered from bathrooms” – a workshop was organized at the University of Gothenburg (May 23-24, 2016) to annotate public fungal barcode (ITS) sequences according to the MIxS-Built Environment annotation standard (http://gensc.org/mixs/). The 36 participants assembled a total of 45,488 data points from the published literature, including the addition of 8,430 instances of countries of collection from a total of 83 countries, 5,801 instances of building types, and 3,876 instances of surface-air contaminants. The results were implemented in the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi (http://unite.ut.ee) and were shared with other online resources. Data obtained from human/animal pathogenic fungi will furthermore be verified on culture based metadata for subsequent inclusion in the ISHAM-ITS database (http://its.mycologylab.org). PB - Pensoft Publishers SP - 1-15 SN - 1314-4057 SN - 1314-4049 IS - ER -