This study describes and validates a new method for metagenomic biomarker discovery by way of class comparison, tests of biological consistency and effect size estimation. This addresses the challenge of finding organisms, genes, or pathways that consistently explain the differences between two or more microbial communities, which is a central problem to the study of metagenomics. We extensively validate our method on several microbiomes and a convenient online interface for the method is provided at http://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/lefse/.
Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation
N. Segata,J. Izard,L. Waldron,D. Gevers,L. Miropolsky,W. Garrett,C. Huttenhower
Published 2011 in Genome Biology
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2011
- Venue
Genome Biology
- Publication date
2011-06-24
- Fields of study
Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science
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