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Patrick D Schloss

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Assay:metagenomics· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1

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J. Cameron Thrash· 1 shared Joshua Edwards· 1 shared Marc Sze· 1 shared Rene Girard· 1 shared Thomas Martin· 1 shared

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Looking for a Signal in the Noise: Revisiting Obesity and the Microbiome

Marc Sze, Patrick D Schloss

The paper reanalyzes microbiome data to assess the link between microbiome changes and obesity, finding weak associations and limitations in statistical power and sample size.

bioRxiv · Jul 20, 2016Microbiology

Application of database-independent approach to assess the quality of OTU picking methods

Patrick D Schloss

The paper evaluates 15 OTU picking algorithms using Matthews correlation coefficient, finding the average neighbor method most robust across datasets.

mSystems · Apr 26, 2016Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

The status of the microbial census: an update

Patrick D Schloss, Rene Girard, Thomas Martin, Joshua Edwards, J. Cameron Thrash

The paper evaluates the progress of the microbial census using full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences, finding that while abundant taxa are well-sampled, rare taxa and certain environments remain underrepresented.

bioRxiv · Feb 2, 2016Microbiology