Abstract
AbstractDifferential abundance analysis is an essential and commonly used tool to characterize the difference between microbial communities. However, identifying differentially abundant microbes remains a challenging problem because the observed microbiome data is inherently compositional, excessive sparse, and distorted by experimental bias. Besides these major challenges, the results of differential abundance analysis also depend largely on the choice of analysis unit, adding another practical complexity to this already complicated problem. In this work, we introduce a new differential abundance test called the MsRDB test, which embeds the sequences into a metric space and integrates a multi-scale adaptive strategy for utilizing spatial structure to identify differentially abundant microbes. Compared with existing methods, the MsRDB test can detect differentially abundant microbes at the finest resolution offered by data and provide adequate detection power while being robust to zero counts, compositional effect, and experimental bias in the microbial compositional data set. Applications to both simulated and real microbial compositional data sets demonstrate the usefulness of the MsRDB test.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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