Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, Republic of Korea.
J Microbiol. 2021 Mar;59(3):229-232. doi: 10.1007/s12275-021-0698-3.
Microbial ecology is the study of microorganisms present in nature. It particularly focuses on microbial interactions with any biota and with surrounding environments. Microbial ecology is entering its golden age with innovative multi-omics methods triggered by next-generation sequencing technologies. However, the extraction of ecologically relevant information from ever-increasing omics data remains one of the most challenging tasks in microbial ecology. This special issue includes 11 review articles that provide an overview of the state of the art of omics-based approaches in the field of microbial ecology, with particular emphasis on the interpretation of omics data, environmental pollution tracking, interactions in microbiomes, and viral ecology.
微生物生态学是研究自然界中存在的微生物的学科。它特别关注微生物与任何生物群和周围环境的相互作用。随着下一代测序技术引发的创新多组学方法的出现，微生物生态学正进入其黄金时代。然而，从不断增加的组学数据中提取具有生态学意义的信息仍然是微生物生态学中最具挑战性的任务之一。本期特刊包括 11 篇综述文章，概述了基于组学的方法在微生物生态学领域的最新进展，特别强调了组学数据的解释、环境污染追踪、微生物组内的相互作用以及病毒生态学。
