MicroPheno: predicting environments and host phenotypes from 16S rRNA gene sequencing using a k-mer based representation of shallow sub-samples

MicroPheno: predicting environments and host phenotypes from 16S rRNA gene sequencing using a k-mer based representation of shallow sub-samples Ehsaneddin Asgari, Kiavash Garakani, Alice C. McHardy, Mohammad R.K. Mofrad Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA, Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany and Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA