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Enabling microbiome research on personal devices
Igor Sfiligoi, Daniel McDonald, Rob Knight
Microbiome studies have recently transitioned from experimental designs with a few hundred samples to designs spanning tens of thousands of samples. Modern studies such as the Eart…
Utilizing stability criteria in choosing feature selection methods yields reproducible results in microbiome data
Lingjing Jiang, Niina Haiminen, Anna-Paola Carrieri +7
Feature selection is indispensable in microbiome data analysis, but it can be particularly challenging as microbiome data sets are high-dimensional, underdetermined, sparse and com…
Porting and optimizing UniFrac for GPUs
Igor Sfiligoi, Daniel McDonald, Rob Knight
UniFrac is a commonly used metric in microbiome research for comparing microbiome profiles to one another ("beta diversity"). The recently implemented Striped UniFrac added the cap…
Integrating citizen science with online learning to ask better questions
Vineet Pandey, Scott Klemmer, Amnon Amir +4
Online learners spend millions of hours per year testing their new skills on assignments with known answers. This paper explores whether framing research questions as assignments w…
Multiple pattern matching: A Markov chain approach
Manuel Lladser, M. D. Betterton, Rob Knight
RNA motifs typically consist of short, modular patterns that include base pairs formed within and between modules. Estimating the abundance of these patterns is of fundamental impo…