Acknowledgment Statement for Core Facility Services

Dear User：

Thank you for using the services of the National Human Microbiome Research Cooperation and Technical Service Core Facility. Your feedback and encouragement are the primary sources of motivation for us to continuously enhance and improve the quality of our services. If the services provided by our center have indeed contributed to your experimental results and research papers, we kindly ask you to acknowledge the assistance in the body of your paper, experimental methods, acknowledgments, or author contributions section, mentioning the contributions of the instruments or personnel services from our institution. Additionally, please share the publication record with the administrative staff of the center to facilitate future budget planning and requirements, ensuring the smooth operation of the core facility instruments.

The core facilities at our center primarily operate in a service-oriented manner. When publishing results, it is not necessary to include the service providers as co-authors. However, it is required to acknowledge their contributions in the acknowledgment section of the article.

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The authors acknowledge the research collaboration and technical
service supported by National Human Microbiome Core Facility,
Taiwan (NSTC 114-2740-B-A49-003-).

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