Large-scale benchmarking reveals false discoveries and count transformation sensitivity in 16S rRNA gene amplicon data analysis methods used in microbiome studies

Jonathan Thorsen, Asker Daniel Brejnrod, Martin Steen Mortensen, Morten Arendt Rasmussen, Jakob Stokholm, Waleed Abu Al-Soud, Søren Johannes Sørensen, Hans Bisgaard, Johannes Eichler Waage

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Original languageEnglish
Article number62
JournalMicrobiome
Volume4
Number of pages14
ISSN2049-2618
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Keywords

  • 16S sequencing
  • Microbiome
  • Benchmark
  • Differential relative abundance
  • Beta-diversity

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