Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) play many roles including defense against pathogens,
pests, and herbivores; response to environmental stresses, and mediating organismal …

Complex microbial communities shape the dynamics of various environments, ranging from
the mammalian gastrointestinal tract to the soil. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies …

Motivation Estimating microbial association networks from high-throughput sequencing data
is a common exploratory data analysis approach aiming at understanding the complex …

To minimize the impact of antibiotics, gut microorganisms harbour and exchange antibiotics
resistance genes, collectively called their resistome. Using shotgun sequencing-based …

Datasets collected by high-throughput sequencing (HTS) of 16S rRNA gene amplimers,
metagenomes or metatranscriptomes are commonplace and being used to study human …

Network analysis has been used for many years in ecological research to analyze
organismal associations, for example in food webs, plant-plant or plant-animal interactions …

It is well-known that human gut microbiota form an ecosystem where microbes interact with
each other. Due to complex underlying interactions, some microbes may correlate …

Microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists and archaea live as communities
in complex and contiguous environments. They engage in numerous inter-and intra …

Background Data from 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) amplicon sequencing present
challenges to ecological and statistical interpretation. In particular, library sizes often vary …

Rapid advances in DNA sequencing, metabolomics, proteomics and computational tools are
dramatically increasing access to the microbiome and identification of its links with disease …