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Through connecting genomic and metabolic information, metaproteomics is an essential approach for understanding how microbiomes function in space and time. The international metaproteomics community is delighted to announce the launch of the Metaproteomics Initiative (www.metaproteomics.org), the goal of which is to promote dissemination of metaproteomics fundamentals, advancements, and applications through collaborative networking in microbiome research. The Initiative aims to be the central information hub and open meeting place where newcomers and experts interact to communicate, standardize, and accelerate experimental and bioinformatic methodologies in this feld. We invite the entire microbiome community to join and discuss potential synergies at the interfaces with other disciplines, and to collectively promote innovative approaches to gain deeper insights into microbiome functions and dynamics.
Recent DNA-based studies have shown that the built environment is surprisingly rich in fungi. These indoor fungi – whether transient visitors or more persistent residents – may hold clues to the rising levels of human allergies and other medical and building-related health problems observed globally. The taxo¬nomic identity of these fungi is crucial in such pursuits. Molecular identification of the built mycobiome is no trivial undertaking, however, given the large number of unidentified, misidentified, and technically compromised fungal sequences in public sequence databases. In addition, the sequence metadata required to make informed taxonomic decisions – such as country and host/substrate of collection – are often lacking even from reference and ex-type sequences. Here we report on a taxonomic annotation workshop (April 10–11, 2017) organized at the James Hutton Institute/University of Aberdeen (UK) to facilitate reproducible studies of the built mycobiome. The 32 participants went through public fungal ITS bar¬code sequences related to the built mycobiome for taxonomic and nomenclatural correctness, technical quality, and metadata availability. A total of 19,508 changes – including 4,783 name changes, 14,121 metadata annotations, and the removal of 99 technically compromised sequences – were implemented in the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi (https://unite.ut.ee/) and shared with a range of other databases and downstream resources. Among the genera that saw the largest number of changes were Penicillium, Talaromyces, Cladosporium, Acremonium, and Alternaria, all of them of significant importance in both culture-based and culture-independent surveys of the built environment.
Die Autoren zeigen dazu die gesetzlichen und energiepolitischen Rahmenbedingungen und Perspektiven auf, widmen sich in aktuellen Beiträgen zur Verfahrenstechnik der thermischen Abfallbehandlung sowohl den thermischen Hauptverfahren als auch der Abgasreinigung und gehen auf das Thema Wertstoffrückgewinnung ein. Ihr Fazit: Durch Anstrengungen, das stoffliche Recycling weiter zu optimieren, können künftig weitere Kreisläufe von Produkten und Materialien hochwertig geschlossen werden. Für manche Abfallströme wird dies aber aus verschiedenen Gründen nicht möglich sein – hier bleibt die thermische Abfallbehandlung unverzichtbar.
1. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy enables chemical analysis of pollen samples for plant phenotyping to study plant–environment interactions, such as influence of climate change or pathogens.However, current approach, such as microspectroscopy and attenuated total reflection spectroscopy, does not allow for highthroughput protocols. This study at hand suggests a new spectroscopic method for high-throughput characterization of pollen.
2. Samples were measured as thin films of pollen fragments using a Bruker FTIR spectrometer with a highthroughput eXTension (HTS-XT) unit employing 384-well plates. In total, 146 pollen samples, belonging to 31 different pollen species of Fagaceae and Betulaceae and collected during three consecutive years (2012–2014) at locations in Croatia, Germany and Norway, were analysed. Critical steps in the sample preparation and measurement, such as variabilities between technical replicates, between microplates and between spectrometers, were studied.
3. Measurement variations due to sample preparation, microplate holders and instrumentation were low, and thus allowed differentiation of samples with respect to phylogeny and biogeography. The spectral variability for a range of Fagales species (Fagus, Quercus, Betula, Corylus, Alnus and Ostrya) showed high-species-specific differences in pollen’s chemical composition due to either location or year. Statistically significant inter-annual and locational differences in the pollen spectra indicate that pollen chemical composition has high phenotypic plasticity and is influenced by local climate conditions. The variations in composition are connected to lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and sporopollenins that play crucial roles in cold and desiccation tolerance, protection against UVradiation and asmaterial and energy reserves.
4. The results of this study demonstrate the value of high-throughput FTIR approach for the systematic collection of data on ecosystems. The novel FTIR approach offers fast, reliable and economical screening of large number of samples by semi-automated methodology. The high-throughput approach could provide crucial understanding on plant–climate interactions with respect to biochemical variation within genera, species and populations.
1. Fourier transform infrar ed (FTIR) spectroscopy enables chemical analysis of pollen samples for plant phenotyping to stud y plant–environment interactions, such as influence of climate change or pathogens. However, current approach, such as microspectrosc opy and attenuated total refle ction spectrosco py, doe s not allow fo r high-throughput protocols. This st udy at hand suggests a new sp ectroscopic method for high-throughp ut characterization of pollen.
2. Samples were measured as thin films of pollen fragments using a Bruker FTIR spe ctrometer with a high-throughput eXTension (HTS-XT) unit employing 384-well plates. In total, 146 pollen samples, belonging to 31 different pollen species of Fagaceae and Betulaceae and collected during three consecutive years (2012–2014) at locations in Croatia, Germany and Norway, were analysed. Critical steps in the sample preparation and measurement, such as variabilities between technical replicates, between microplates and between spectrometers, were studied.
3. Measurement variations due to sample preparation, microplate holders and instrumentation were low, and thus allowed differentiation of samples with respect to phylogeny and biogeography. The spectral variability for a ran ge of Fagales spec ies (Fagus, Quercus, Betula, Corylus, Alnus and Ostrya) showed high-species-specific differences in pollen’s chemical composition due to eithe r location or year. Statistically significant inter-annual and locational differences in the pollen spectra indicate that pollen chemical composition has high phenotypic plasticity and is influenced by local climate conditions. The variations in composition are connected to lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and sporopollenins that play crucial ro les in cold and desiccation tolerance, protection against UV radiation and as material and energy reserves.
4. The results of this study demonstrate the value of high-throughput FTIR approach for the systematic collection of data on ecosystems. The novel FTIR approach offers fast, reliable and economical screening of large number of samples by semi-automated methodology. The high-throughput approach could provide crucial understanding on plant–climate interactions with respect to biochemical variation within genera, species and populations.
MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has become a widely used tool for the classification of biological samples. The complex chemical composition of pollen grains leads to highly specific, fingerprint-like mass spectra, with respect to the pollen species. Beyond the species-specific composition, the variances in pollen chemistry can be hierarchically structured, including the level of different populations, of environmental conditions or different genotypes. We demonstrate here the sensitivity of MALDI-TOF MS regarding the adaption of the chemical composition of three Poaceae (grass) pollen for different populations of parent plants by analyzing the mass spectra with partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) and principal component analysis (PCA). Thereby, variances in species, population and specific growth conditions of the plants were observed simultaneously. In particular, the chemical pattern revealed by the MALDI spectra enabled discrimination of the different populations of one species. Specifically, the role of environmental changes and their effect on the pollen chemistry of three different grass species is discussed. Analysis of the Group formation within the respective populations showed a varying influence of plant genotype on the classification, depending on the species, and permits conclusions regarding the respective rigidity or plasticity towards environmental changes.
Für die Sicherheit von Spannbetonbauwerken ist eine Empfindlichkeitsprüfung von Spannstahlprodukten gegenüber der wasserstoffinduzierten Spannungsrisskorrosion zwingend erforderlich. Die derzeitig normativ festgelegten Prüfmethoden nach DIN EN ISO 15630-3 zeigen nachweislich Schwächen hinsichtlich der Reproduzierbarkeit der Ergebnisse und erschweren damit die eindeutige Bewertung der Empfindlichkeit. Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens der Förderinitiative WIPANO des BMWK war es, die Prüfmethode hinsichtlich der Reproduzierbarkeit und Aussagesicherheit zu verbessern. Im Projekt wurden durch materialseitige, elektrolytische und verfahrenstechnische Parameteränderungen konstante und reproduzierbare Prüfbedingungen geschaffen. Dies ermöglichte eine eindeutige Differenzierung zwischen Gut- und Schlechtprodukten. Innerhalb des Projekts wurde ein Ringversuch initiiert, welcher die Anwendbarkeit und Reproduzierbarkeit der neuen Prüfmethode bestätigte. Das neue Prüfverfahren wurde hinsichtlich der Anwendbarkeit für das Spannstahlerzeugnis Draht evaluiert. Ein entsprechender Normentwurf mit einem Vorschlag für ein Konformitätskriterium dieser Erzeugnisse wurde dem zuständigen ISO-Gremium präsentiert und zur Abstimmung überlassen. Nach aktueller Rückmeldung seitens des Gremiums wird der Normentwurf den Eingang in den informativen Anhang der Prüfnorm finden, dies könnte den Weg für eine Spiegelung auf europäischer und nationaler Normungsebene ebnen.
For international trade and production of machinery used in potentially explosive atmospheres it is important to know about the regulations within the European Union. This paper presents an application of CHEMSAFE flammability data for fulfilling the requirements of the EU explosion protection directives. Most of the published data for flammability of substances are measured under atmospheric conditions although chemical processes operate often under non-atmospheric conditions. A couple of R&D projects were initiated in Germany to get more knowledge on explosion characteristics for non-atmospheric conditions. The explosion protection for machinery operated under non-atmospheric conditions is defined in the 2006/42/EU Directive. CHEMSAFE fulfills this requirement while it contains data of flammable compounds measured under non-atmospheric conditions and with other oxidizers than air. Furthermore it includes flammability data for gas mixtures consisting of flammable, inert, and different oxidizing components and most of the data are measured according to international standards. Safety data on flammable dusts - such as minimum ignition energy, maximum explosion pressure, ignition temperatures - represents also an important part of the database. The potentially explosive atmospheres are defined in revised Directive 2014/34/EU. For preparing risk assessment documents the following data for flammable gases and vapors, relating to the use of equipment, among others are necessary: Flammability limit, flash point, temperature class - auto-ignition temperature, maximum experimental safe gap. CHEMSAFE'2013 includes not only these data but also more than 200 triangular explosion diagrams, e.g. the newly measured methane/nitrogen/oxygen system under pressures up to 50 bars. The international standard Draft of IEC 80079-1-1 publishes data tables for flammable substances originated from CHEMSAFE which represents the international acceptance of these data.