To cite microeco in publications, please use:

Liu C, Li X, Mansoldo FRP, Chen T, Meng F, Tang R, Zhou S, Yang Q, Shao R, Yao M (2026). “microeco 2: A comprehensive R package for downstream analysis of microbiome omics data.” iMeta, 5, e70132. doi:10.1002/imt2.70132. https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.70132.

Liu C, Mansoldo FRP, Li H, Vermelho AB, Zeng RJ, Li X, Yao M (2026). “A workflow for statistical analysis and visualization of microbiome omics data using the R microeco package.” Nature Protocols, 21(4), 1300-1324. doi:10.1038/s41596-025-01239-4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01239-4.

Liu C, Cui Y, Li X, Yao M (2021). “microeco: An R package for data mining in microbial community ecology.” FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 97(2), fiaa255. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiaa255. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa255.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {microeco 2: A comprehensive R package for downstream
      analysis of microbiome omics data},
    author = {Chi Liu and Xiangzhen Li and Felipe R. P. Mansoldo and
      Tong Chen and Fanzheng Meng and Ruixiang Tang and Siyu Zhou and
      Qinghua Yang and Ruixin Shao and Minjie Yao},
    year = {2026},
    journal = {iMeta},
    volume = {5},
    pages = {e70132},
    doi = {10.1002/imt2.70132},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/imt2.70132},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {A workflow for statistical analysis and visualization of
      microbiome omics data using the R microeco package},
    author = {Chi Liu and Felipe R. P. Mansoldo and Hankang Li and
      Alane Beatriz Vermelho and Raymond Jianxiong Zeng and Xiangzhen
      Li and Minjie Yao},
    year = {2026},
    journal = {Nature Protocols},
    volume = {21},
    number = {4},
    pages = {1300-1324},
    doi = {10.1038/s41596-025-01239-4},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-025-01239-4},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {microeco: An R package for data mining in microbial
      community ecology},
    author = {Chi Liu and Yaoming Cui and Xiangzhen Li and Minjie Yao},
    year = {2021},
    journal = {FEMS Microbiology Ecology},
    volume = {97},
    number = {2},
    pages = {fiaa255},
    doi = {10.1093/femsec/fiaa255},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaa255},
  }