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Bad news about microbiome differential abundance tests: Lots to run and not much fun
Microbiome researchers are faced with numerous choices throughout data analysis. This includes which differential abundance tool they should use to identify microbes associated with their outcome of interest. In our work we uncover what kind of impact these choices have on study conclusions.
To Float Rocks a Microbe Juggles Metabolisms
Addressing a mystery about the dynamic regulation of nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis in the marine nitrogen fixer Trichodesmium.
When phytoplankton realize that bacteria are present
Bacterial influence on phytoplankton metabolism may play an important role in ocean carbon flux