z-logo
open-access-imgOpen Access
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.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.
Having issues? You can contact us here
Accelerating Research

Address

John Eccles House
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom