Linking Associations of Rare Low-Abundance Species to Their Environments by Association Networks

Studies of microbial communities by targeted sequencing of rRNA genes lead to recovering numerous rare low-abundance taxa with unknown biological roles. We propose to study associations of such rare organisms with their environments by a computational framework based on transformation of the data in...

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Main Authors: Tatiana V. Karpinets, Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, Jennifer Wargo, Andrew P. Futreal, Christopher W. Schadt, Jianhua Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00297/full