Folker Meyer

Grand challenge in microbiome data science: recovering the microbiome as a system

The microbiome has never been only a census of organisms. In its original ecological formula4on, the term described a microbial community embedded in a defined habitat, with its own physicochemical condi4ons and "theatre of ac4vity" [1; 2]. That original framing is useful now because it reminds us that microbes do not...