An expectation-maximization algorithm enables accurate ecological modeling using longitudinal microbiome sequencing data

Abstract Background The dynamics of microbial communities is driven by a range of interactions from symbiosis to predator-prey relationships, the majority of which are poorly understood. With the increasing availability of high-throughput microbiome taxonomic profiling data, it is now conceivable to...

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Main Authors: Chenhao Li, Kern Rei Chng, Junmei Samantha Kwah, Tamar V. Av-Shalom, Lisa Tucker-Kellogg, Niranjan Nagarajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-08-01
Series:Microbiome
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-019-0729-z