Learning Microbial Community Structures with Supervised and Unsupervised Non-negative Matrix Factorization

Abstract Background Learning the structure of microbial communities is critical in understanding the different community structures and functions of microbes in distinct individuals. We view microbial communities as consisting of many subcommunities which are formed by certain groups of microbes fun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yun Cai, Hong Gu, Toby Kenney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0323-1