A convenient correspondence between k-mer-based metagenomic distances and phylogenetically-informed β-diversity measures.
k-mer-based distances are often used to describe the differences between communities in metagenome sequencing studies because of their computational convenience and history of effectiveness. Although k-mer-based distances do not use information about taxon abundances, we show that one class of k-mer...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2023-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010821 |