Qiita: rapid, web-enabled microbiome meta-analysis.

Gonzalez, Antonio; Navas-Molina, Jose A; Kosciolek, Tomasz; McDonald, Daniel; Vázquez-Baeza, Yoshiki; Ackermann, Gail; DeReus, Jeff; Janssen, Stefan et al. · Nat Methods · 2018

meta_analysis · Level I

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Abstract

Multi-omic insights into microbiome function and composition typically advance one study at a time. However, in order for relationships across studies to be fully understood, data must be aggregated into meta-analyses. This makes it possible to generate new hypotheses by finding features that are reproducible across biospecimens and data layers. Qiita dramatically accelerates such integration tasks in a web-based microbiome-comparison platform, which we demonstrate with Human Microbiome Project and Integrative Human Microbiome Project (iHMP) data.

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