Published online on December 7, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by Wesley P. Black, Lingling Wang, Manli Y. Davis and Zhaomin Yang (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, US) and Lingling Wang (South China Agricultural University, China)is now available to view.

Published online on December 1, 2015 by The ISME Journal, this article by Youssef Darzi, Gwen Falony, Sara Vieira-Silva and Jeroen Raes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) is now available to view.

Published online on November 26, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by Audrey-Anne Durand, Amélie Bergeron, Philippe Constant, Jean-Philippe Buffet, Eric Déziel and Claude Guertin (NRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Canada) is now available to view.

Published online on November 23, 2015 by The ISME Journal, this article by Laure B Bindels, Audrey M Neyrinck, Patrice D Cani and Nathalie M Delzenne (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Sandrine P Claus and Caroline I Le Roy (University of Reading, UK), Corinne Grangette and Bruno Pot (Université Lille Nord de France, France) and Inés Martinez and Jens Walter (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) is now available to view.

Published online on November 23, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by O. Lidor, A. Al-Quntar and D. Steinberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and E. C. Pesci (East Carolina University, US) is now available to view.

Published online on November 23, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by Shanshan Li, Tingting Li, Yueyang Xu, Qionglin Zhang, Wei Zhang, Shiyou Che, Ruihua Liu, Yingying Wang and Mark Bartlam (Nankai University, China) is now available to view.

Published online on November 16, 2015 by Nature Reviews Microbiology, this article by Kwangmin Son, Douglas R. Brumley and Roman Stocker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US) and Douglas R. Brumley and Roman Stocker, (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) is now available to view.

Published online on November 3, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by Kai Bao, Nagihan Bostanci, George N. Belibasakis, Nathalie Selevsek and Jonas Grossmann (University of Zürich, Switzerland) is now available to view.

Published online on November 4, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this paper by Xiaoxiao Liu, Yangmei Li, Yunxue Guo, Zhenshun Zeng, Baiyuan Li, Xingsheng Cai, Xiaoxue Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yangmei Li, Zhenshun Zeng, Baiyuan Li, (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) and Thomas K. Wood (Pennsylvania State University, US) is now available to view.

Published online on November 9, 2015 by Nature Reviews Microbiology, this article by Cláudio Nunes-Alves, Locum Chief Editor at Nature Reviews Microbiology, is now available to view.

This conference run by Global Engage is now in its second year, focused on collaborations in microbiota research, probiotics, health and disease.

Published online on October 29, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by Nicola Tisato (University of Toronto, Canada), Stefano F. F. Torriani (Institute of Integrative Biology, Switzerland), Sylvain Monteux (Université Montpellier 2, France), Francesco Sauro, Jo De Waele and Ilenia M. D’Angeli (Bologna University, Italy), Maria Luisa Tavagna, Timothy I. Eglinton and Tomaso R. R. Bontognali (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and Daniel Chailloux and Michel Renda (FFS –Fédération Française de Spéléologie, France) is now available to view.

Articles published on October 28, 2015 in Science and Nature, which called for national and international initiatives that would unite microbiome researchers and move the field forward, have inspired conversation in the research community. Nature has published a useful round-up of the debate so far.

Published online on October 28, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by Christian Milani, Gabriele Andrea Lugli, Sabrina Duranti, Leonardo Mancabelli, Chiara Ferrario, Marta Mangifesta, Alice Viappiani, Stefania Arioli and Marco Ventura (University of Parma, Italy), Francesca Turroni and Douwe van Sinderen (National University of Ireland, Ireland), Arancha Hevia, Borja Sanchez and Abelardo Margolles (IPLA – CSIC, Spain), Matthias Scholz and Nicola Segata (University of Trento, Italy), Jonathan Lane and Rita Hickey (Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland), Doyle V. Ward (Broad Institute, US) and Diego Mora (University of Milan, Italy) is now available to view.

Published online on October 30, 2015 by Scientific Reports, this article by Ferenc Jordán, Mario Lauria, Marco Scotti, Thanh-Phuong Nguyen, Paurush Praveen, Melissa Morine and Corrado Priami (University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy) is now available to view.