微生物组的主要目的是联合在环境、农业和生物医学领域进行微生物组研究的研究人员。将考虑出版广泛涉及微生物群落研究的主题，如微生物调查、生物信息学、元组学方法和群落/宿主相互作用模型。通过这些文献的收集，Microbiome希望将微生物生态学中具有广泛交叉子学科的共同科学目标的研究人员整合在一起。
The central purpose of Microbiome is to unite investigators conducting microbiome research in environmental, agricultural, and biomedical arenas.Topics broadly addressing the study of microbial communities, such as, microbial surveys, bioinformatics, meta-omics approaches and community/host interaction modeling will be considered for publication. Through this collection of literature Microbiome hopes to integrate researchers with common scientific objectives across a broad cross-section of sub-disciplines within microbial ecology.