Pathomap Japan node Haruo Suzuki 1 Eli Kaminuma

Pathomap Japan node Haruo Suzuki 1, Eli Kaminuma 2, Yukuto Sato 3, and Riu Yamashita 3 Yamaguchi University 1, National Institute of Genetics 2, Tohoku University 3

Collaborators Haruo Suzuki Yamashita Eli Kaminuma Yukuto Sato Riu

National Institute of Genetics (NIG) Eli Kaminuma (Bioinformatics) - Crowdsourced science - NGS annotation pipeline - DNA fingerprinting (SNP markers) Genome Informatics Lab. (Prof. Nakamura)

Tohoku University Yamashita http: //nagasakilab. csml. org/en/mission Sato Shinozaki

Swab subways in Tokyo and Sendai 8. 9 earthquake hits Japan in 2011 http: //i 2. cdn. turner. com/cnn/2011/images/03/11/t 1 larg. japan. quake 2. jpg

http: //www. deepjapan. org/a/2723

Swab subways in Tokyo and Sendai Tokyo: Oedo-line 38 stations Sendai: Nanboku-line 17 stations From wikipedia

Questionnaire for selecting sampling sites Asked 100 crowdsourced workers (lancers. jp) “What do you touch in subway? ” Stairwell railing http: //www. tokyometro. jp/news/2010 -m 07. html

Prepared tools for crowdsourced sample collection Data submission website http: //tga. nig. ac. jp/pathomapj/ Swab-kit Puritan medical product Co. Letterpack Logistic track log by Japan Post Japanese Instruction

Geo. Location-tagging using GPS from mobile sensing *Global Positioning System(GPS) EXIF (Exchangeable image file format) Latitude: 35. 41538 Longitude: 139. 421663

Problems • Stations are cleaned often (every 2 -3 days). Images by Google search • Effect of sample storage temperature.

We recruit collaborators for microbiomes of Subways in Japan http: //www. ngs-field. org/ngs 4 th/

http: //www. olympic. org/content/news/all-news-groups/tokyo-2020/