Identifying and Predicting Novelty in Microbiome Studies

We introduce two concepts to quantify the novelty of a microbiome. The first, the microbiome novelty score (MNS), allows identification of microbiomes that are especially different from what is already sequenced. The second, the microbiome attention score (MAS), allows identification of microbiomes...

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Main Authors: Xiaoquan Su, Gongchao Jing, Daniel McDonald, Honglei Wang, Zengbin Wang, Antonio Gonzalez, Zheng Sun, Shi Huang, Jose Navas, Rob Knight, Jian Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-11-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02099-18