gneiss

Balances are an alternative technique to investigate relationships between proportions. Rather than focusing on proportions, log ratios or balances are investigated in analyses. This technique has many beneficial theoretical properties, while avoiding issues associated with compositionality in differential abundance, correlations and regression. More details on balances can be found here.

Installation:

To install this package, it is recommended to use conda. First make sure that the appropriate channels are configured.

	      conda config --add channels https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda
	      conda config --add channels https://conda.anaconda.org/biocore
	      conda config --add channels https://conda.anaconda.org/qiime2
	      conda config --add channels https://conda.anaconda.org/qiime2/label/r2017.6

Then gneiss can be installed in a conda environment as follows

	      conda create -n gneiss_env gneiss

If you find this package useful please cite us at

	      Morton JT, Sanders J, Quinn RA, McDonald D, Gonzalez A, Vázquez-Baeza Y,
	      Navas-Molina JA, Song SJ, Metcalf JL, Hyde ER, Lladser M, Dorrestein PC,
	      Knight R. 2017. Balance trees reveal microbial niche differentiation.
	      mSystems 2:e00162-16. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00162-16.