Standardizing data reporting in the research community to enhance the utility of open data for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance.

ABSTRACT: 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 metainformation 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 metainformati

SUBMITTER: McClary-Gutierrez JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8459677 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature