Considering this I am kinda baffled by this. There is tons of microbial metagenomics and genomics in PLoS journals.
More like this
Since I'm attending a human microbiome meeting today, I'll repost this question about the utility of metagenomics:
NIH, in about six months, will release a huge sum of money to fund the study of the human 'microbiome': those microorganisms that live on or in us.
Last Sunday I was on a panel at the American Society for Microbiology meetings. I'll post a slidecast of the talk in a few days, and get into the topic of the panel in more detail then.