Review
Open access
Sep 2026
Foundation Models for Microbiome Research: From Sequence Semantics to Community Dynamics and Multimodal World Models
This Review presents microbiome foundation models as a hierarchy spanning biological scales, and proposes a transition from static representation learning toward intervention‐aware microbiome world models capable of simulation, digital twinning, and generative microbiome engineering.
Hao-Hong Zhang, Zi-Xin Kang, K. Ning
· Advanced genetics · 0 citations