MetaCoMET: a web platform for discovery and visualization of the core microbiome

We present a web platform named MetaCoMET that enables the discovery and visualization of the core microbiome and provides a comparison of the relative abundance and diversity patterns between subsets of samples within a microbiome dataset. MetaCoMET provides an efficient and interactive graphical interface for analyzing each subset defined by the union or disjunction of groups within the Venn diagram, and includes a graphical taxonomy summary, alpha diversity metrics, Principal Coordinate analysis, abundance-based heatmaps, and a chart indicating the geographic distribution of each sample.
Availability and Implementation: MetaCoMET is a user-friendly and efficient web platform freely accessible at http://probes.pw.usda.gov/MetaCoMET or http://aegilops.wheat.ucdavis.edu/MetaCoMET.
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Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Source: Bioinformatics - November 28, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Wang, Y., Xu, L., Gu, Y. Q., Coleman-Derr, D. Tags: DATA AND TEXT MINING Source Type: research