Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2106-2113

  Chen, Jun ^a   Bittinger, Kyle ^a   Charlson, Emily S ^a   Hoffmann, Christian ^a   Lewis, James ^a   Wu, Gary D ^a   Collman, Ronald G ^a   Bushman, Frederic D ^a   Li, Hongzhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; METAGENOME; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SMOKING;

EID: 84865082160     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts342     Document Type: Article

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