EWUU second meeting - Differencial abundance and data pre-processing

Before the meeting, please read the papers about:

Time and location

Monday 17 April from 10:00 to 16:00 at Wageningen UR.

Agenda with approximate times

10h-10h15: coffee

10h15-11h05: presentation of Leo Lahti (University of Turku – Finland): “Microbiome data science with R/Bioconductor”

11h05-11h20: coffee break

11h20-11h35: Recap of previous work group

11h35-12h10: introduction to the topic of the afternoon discussion (filtering rare taxa/transformations + comparative analysis of non-compositional data)

12h10-13h: lunch

13h-14h30: discussion - influence of removal of rare taxa and transformations on statistical results. Before the meeting, please read https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.607325/full

14h30-14h40: coffee break

14h40-15h50: discussion – comparative analysis (non-compositional data). Before the meeting, please read https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24460

15h50-16h: wrap up

Route to the WUR

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