NOTE: This package in under active development. Changes may be done without prior notice. No support will be provided for the tool unless a stable version is released.
biomestats is an R package developed to bring the microbiome association framework proposed by Ferreira JA and Fuentes S. Some comments on certain statistical aspects of the study of the microbiome. Briefings in bioinformatics. 2020 Jul;21(4):1487-94 to the wider microbiome research community. The tools is developed within the RIVM-Microbiome Toolbox project.
The biomestats R package currently supports cross-sectional associations and does not incorporate methods for longitudinal observations.
If you use the biomestats software, please cite the following manuscript(s):
Ferreira JA and Fuentes S. Some comments on certain statistical aspects of the study of the microbiome. Briefings in bioinformatics. 2020 Jul;21(4):1487-94.
Shetty SA, Ferreira JA, Debbie van Baarle and Fuentes S. biomestats: An R package with methods for carrying out association studies of the microbiome(under prep).
The work has been supported by the following bodies:
- Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM)
- Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands