RTK: efficient rarefaction analysis of large datasets
Author(s) -
Paul Saary,
Sofia K. Forslund,
Peer Bork,
Falk Hildebrand
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx206
Subject(s) - rarefaction (ecology) , computer science , software , species evenness , source code , field (mathematics) , visualization , code (set theory) , count data , r package , data mining , computational science , species richness , programming language , statistics , mathematics , ecology , biology , set (abstract data type) , pure mathematics , poisson distribution
The rapidly expanding microbiomics field is generating increasingly larger datasets, characterizing the microbiota in diverse environments. Although classical numerical ecology methods provide a robust statistical framework for their analysis, software currently available is inadequate for large datasets and some computationally intensive tasks, like rarefaction and associated analysis.
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