Suguru Nishijima

The paper identifies a gut cyanobacterial lineage, Gastranaerophilales, enriched in African populations and reduced in industrialized societies.

Metalog manually curates and harmonises contextual metadata for 110,733 metagenomic samples from humans, animals, ocean water and other environments, linked to taxonomic profiles and SPIRE genomes.

This study shows that fecal microbial load, not disease, is the main driver of gut microbiome changes and identifies it as a major confounder in microbiome studies.

The paper refines enterotypes in global fecal metagenomes using fuzzy clustering and introduces an Enterotype Dysbiosis Score to assess disease associations.