Isala Citizen Science Project: Cross-sectional branch

The Isala Citizen Science Project, is named after the first female doctor in Belgium, Isala Van Diest (1842-1916). In a co-creative way, volunteers provided samples and data, proposed research objectives and survey questions, and helped to disseminate and interpret the objectives and results through different media platforms, jointly breaking taboos on women’s and vaginal health. In Flow 1, we collected a single sample from a cross-section of the population, characterized the microbiome, and associated it with data collected in questionnaires. Here, we provide extensive sample meta-data for over 3000 women who completed questionnaires on their lifestyle, diet, health, contraceptive use and environment.

Type: Other
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset 2 Publications

Click on a Dataset ID in the table below to learn more, and to find out who to contact about access to these data

Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD00001009890	This meta data contains extensive meta data from the cross sectional flow of the Isala Citizen Science project. The meta data file contains ENA Accession numbers for 16S Microbiome data, and cleaned responses to questionnaires.		3453

Publications	Citations
Microbial enrichment and storage for metagenomics of vaginal, skin, and saliva samples. Ahannach S, Delanghe L, Spacova I, Wittouck S, Van Beeck W, De Boeck I, Lebeer S. iScience 24: 2021 103306	18
A citizen-science-enabled catalogue of the vaginal microbiome and associated factors. Lebeer S, Ahannach S, Gehrmann T, Wittouck S, Eilers T, Oerlemans E, Condori S, Dillen J, Spacova I, Vander Donck L, Masquillier C, Allonsius CN, Bron PA, Van Beeck W, De Backer C, Donders G, Verhoeven V. Nat Microbiol 8: 2023 2183-2195	25