Wei Lan Zhou

This study shows that ichthyosis genotype, phenotype, and host factors influence the skin microbiome's species, strain, and metabolic pathway composition.

The paper investigates how skin biophysical traits, particularly collagen diffusion coefficient, are associated with the composition and functional potential of the skin microbiome during aging.

The paper introduces two microbial reference databases, reprDB and panDB, which improve metagenomic profiling by reducing redundancy and increasing efficiency in taxonomic assignment and pan-genome identification.