A comprehensive evaluation of microbial differential abundance analysis methods: current status and potential solutions

L Yang, J Chen - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Differential abundance analysis (DAA) is one central statistical task in
microbiome data analysis. A robust and powerful DAA tool can help identify highly confident …

[HTML][HTML] A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies

J Wirbel, M Essex, SK Forslund, G Zeller - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background In microbiome disease association studies, it is a fundamental task to test which
microbes differ in their abundance between groups. Yet, consensus on suitable or optimal …

Performance of gut Microbiome as an independent diagnostic tool for 20 diseases: cross-cohort validation of machine-learning classifiers

M Li, J Liu, J Zhu, H Wang, C Sun, NL Gao… - Gut …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cross-cohort validation is essential for gut-microbiome-based disease stratification but was
only performed for limited diseases. Here, we systematically evaluated the cross-cohort …

MIDASim: a fast and simple simulator for realistic microbiome data

M He, N Zhao, GA Satten - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background Advances in sequencing technology has led to the discovery of associations
between the human microbiota and many diseases, conditions, and traits. With the …

Host phenotype classification from human microbiome data is mainly driven by the presence of microbial taxa

R Giliberti, S Cavaliere, IE Mauriello… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Machine learning-based classification approaches are widely used to predict host
phenotypes from microbiome data. Classifiers are typically employed by considering …

Zero is not absence: censoring-based differential abundance analysis for microbiome data

LS Chan, G Li - Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Microbiome data analysis faces the challenge of sparsity, with many entries
recorded as zeros. In differential abundance analysis, the presence of excessive zeros in …

Accommodating multiple potential normalizations in microbiome associations studies

H Song, W Ling, N Zhao, AM Plantinga, CA Broedlow… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Microbial communities are known to be closely related to many diseases, such
as obesity and HIV, and it is of interest to identify differentially abundant microbial species …

Viral genomic variation and the severity of genital HSV-2 infection as quantified by shedding rate: a viral genome-wide association study

AM Casto, H Song, H **e, S Selke… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background The clinical severity of genital HSV-2 infection varies widely among infected
persons with some experiencing frequent genital lesions while others are asymptomatic …

Simple and flexible sign and rank-based methods for testing for differential abundance in microbiome studies

L Kodalci, O Thas - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Microbiome data obtained with amplicon sequencing are considered as compositional data.
It has been argued that these data can be analysed after appropriate transformation to log …

Gut microbiome and symptoms in females with irritable bowel syndrome: a cross-sectional analysis

KJ Kamp, AM Plantinga, KC Cain, RL Burr, CS Tsai… - Beneficial …, 2024 - brill.com
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a disorder of gut-brain interaction, is associated with
abdominal pain and stool frequency/character alterations that are linked to changes in …