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�…

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

QIIME 2 is a completely re‐engineered microbiome bioinformatics platform based on the
popular QIIME platform, which it has replaced. QIIME 2 facilitates comprehensive and fully�…

Sequence-based approaches to study microbiomes, such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing
and metagenomics, are uncovering associations between microbial taxa and a myriad of�…

Microbiology is experiencing a revolution brought on by recent developments in sequencing
technology. The unprecedented volume of microbiome data being generated poses�…

Motivation: A key component of the analysis of microbiome datasets is the identification of
OTUs shared between multiple experimental conditions, commonly referred to as the core�…

Mock communities are an important tool for validating, optimizing, and comparing
bioinformatics methods for microbial community analysis. We present mockrobiota, a public�…

Microbiome analyses can be challenging because microbial strains are numerous, and
often, confounding factors in the data set are also numerous. Many tools reduce, summarize�…

There is increasing interest in employing shotgun sequencing, rather than amplicon
sequencing, to analyze microbiome samples. Typical projects may involve hundreds of�…

Background Advances in sequencing technology has led to the discovery of associations
between the human microbiota and many diseases, conditions, and traits. With the�…