Zi-Xin Kang

Foundation Models for Microbiome Research: From Sequence Semantics to Community Dynamics and Multimodal World Models

ABSTRACT Microbiome sequencing has advanced faster than microbiome understanding. Although large‐scale 16S, metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, and proteomic datasets have accumulated rapidly, most analyses remain cohort‐specific and association‐driven, limiting mechanistic insight, cross‐study transferability, and robust...