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SUBMITTER: Jiang R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8240317 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Ruochen R Li Wei Vivian WV Li Jingyi Jessica JJ
Genome biology 20210628 1
A critical challenge in microbiome data analysis is the existence of many non-biological zeros, which distort taxon abundance distributions, complicate data analysis, and jeopardize the reliability of scientific discoveries. To address this issue, we propose the first imputation method for microbiome data-mbImpute-to identify and recover likely non-biological zeros by borrowing information jointly from similar samples, similar taxa, and optional metadata including sample covariates and taxon phy ...[more]