Our growing awareness of the microbial world’s importance and diversity contrasts starkly
with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA …

To the Editor—Rapid advances in DNA-sequencing and bioinformatics technologies in the
past two decades have substantially improved understanding of the microbial world. This …

Complex microbial communities shape the dynamics of various environments, ranging from
the mammalian gastrointestinal tract to the soil. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies …

High-throughput sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicons has facilitated
understanding of complex microbial communities, but the inherent noise in PCR and DNA …

Functional profiles of microbial communities are typically generated using comprehensive
metagenomic or metatranscriptomic sequence read searches, which are time-consuming, …

We present QIIME 2, an opensource microbiome data science platform accessible to users
spanning the microbiome research ecosystem, from scientists and engineers to clinicians …

Although much work has linked the human microbiome to specific phenotypes and lifestyle
variables, data from different projects have been challenging to integrate and the extent of …

Cyanophages (cyanobacterial viruses) are important agents of horizontal gene transfer among
marine cyanobacteria, the numerically dominant photosynthetic organisms in the oceans. …

Vertebrate corpse decomposition provides an important stage in nutrient cycling in most
terrestrial habitats, yet microbially mediated processes are poorly understood. Here we combine …

Cyanophages infecting the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus
encode and express genes for the photosynthetic light reactions. Sequenced cyanophage …