Revealing the microbial assemblage structure in the human gut microbiome using latent Dirichlet allocation

Abstract Background The human gut microbiome has been suggested to affect human health and thus has received considerable attention. To clarify the structure of the human gut microbiome, clustering methods are frequently applied to human gut taxonomic profiles. Enterotypes, i.e., clusters of individ...

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Main Authors: Shion Hosoda, Suguru Nishijima, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Masahira Hattori, Michiaki Hamada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-020-00864-3