Analysis of composition of microbiomes: a novel method for studying microbial composition

Background: Understanding the factors regulating our microbiota is important but requires appropriate statistical methodology. When comparing two or more populations most existing approaches either discount the underlying compositional structure in the microbiome data or use probability models such...

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Main Authors: Siddhartha Mandal, Will Van Treuren, Richard A. White, Merete Eggesbø, Rob Knight, Shyamal D. Peddada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015-05-01
Series:Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease
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Online Access:http://www.microbecolhealthdis.net/index.php/mehd/article/view/27663/40390