Human microbiota / Human microbiome & Research

The microbiome research is highly interdisciplinary and encompasses humans, animals, plants, and environmental areas with impacts on health, ecosystems, and food security. While human microbiome research has been strongly promoted thanks to high investments, environmental microbiome research remains underfunded. It requires complex, cross-disciplinary approaches and generates extensive multi-omics data, the collection and standardization of which is challenging. Additionally, the implementation of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles and incomplete metadata often cause problems. To improve the reuse and comparability of data, common, consensus-based guidelines from researchers, funders, publication sites, and data repositories are necessary (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,…