General microbiome

[Editorial] A blueprint for contemporary studies of microbiomes – Bindels et al. Microbiome

[Perspective] Moving from genome-scale to community-scale metabolic models for the human gut microbiome – Quinn-Bohmann et al. Nature Microbiology

[Review] Clinical translation of microbiome research – Gilbert et al. Nature Medicine

Gut microbiome

Antibiotic-induced gut microbiome perturbation alters the immune responses to the rabies vaccine – Feng et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Animal models

Systems genetics uncovers associations among host amylase locus, gut microbiome, and metabolic traits in mice – Zhang et al. Microbiome

Initial gut microbiota composition is a determining factor in the promotion of colorectal cancer by oral iron supplementation: evidence from a murine model  – Cuisiniere et al. Microbiome

Virome

The T-series bacteriophages are reductionist models that continue to shape the field  – Barr. Nature Microbiology

Phollow reveals in situ phage transmission dynamics in the zebrafish gut microbiome at single-virion resolution  – Ortiz de ora et al. Nature Microbiology

Bioinformatics 

FGeneBERT: function-driven pre-trained gene language model for metagenomics – Duan et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 

TaxSEA: rapid interpretation of microbiome alterations using taxon set enrichment analysis and public databases – Cong et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics.