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Title: | A unified framework for unconstrained and constrained ordination of microbiome read count data | Authors: | Hawinkel, Stijn Kerckhof, Frederiek-Maarten BIJNENS, Luc THAS, Olivier |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Source: | PLOS ONE, 14(2) (Art N° e0205474) | Abstract: | Explorative visualization techniques provide a first summary of microbiome read count datasets through dimension reduction. A plethora of dimension reduction methods exists, but many of them focus primarily on sample ordination, failing to elucidate the role of the bacterial species. Moreover, implicit but often unrealistic assumptions underlying these methods fail to account for overdispersion and differences in sequencing depth, which are two typical characteristics of sequencing data. We combine log-linear models with a dispersion estimation algorithm and flexible response function modelling into a framework for unconstrained and constrained ordination. The method is able to cope with differences in dispersion between taxa and varying sequencing depths, to yield meaningful biological patterns. Moreover, it can correct for observed technical confounders, whereas other methods are adversely affected by these artefacts. Unlike distance-based ordination methods, the assumptions underlying our method are stated explicitly and can be verified using simple diagnostics. The combination of unconstrained and constrained ordination in the same framework is unique in the field and facilitates microbiome data exploration. We illustrate the advantages of our method on simulated and real datasets, while pointing out flaws in existing methods. The algorithms for fitting and plotting are available in the R-package RCM. | Notes: | [Hawinkel, Stijn; Thas, Olivier] Univ Ghent, Dept Data Anal & Math Modelling, Ghent, Belgium. [Kerckhof, Frederiek-Maarten] Univ Ghent, Ctr Microbial Ecol & Technol, Ghent, Belgium. [Bijnens, Luc] Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceut Co, Quantitat Sci, Beerse, Belgium. [Bijnens, Luc; Thas, Olivier] Hasselt Univ, Ctr Stat, Hasselt, Belgium. [Thas, Olivier] Univ Wollongong, NIASRA, Wollongong, NSW, Australia. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/29646 | ISSN: | 1932-6203 | e-ISSN: | 1932-6203 | DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0205474 | ISI #: | 000458761300003 | Rights: | 2019 Hawinkel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2020 |
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