Abstract. Public omics repositories contain vast amounts of valuable data, but their metadata suffers from extreme heterogeneity, unstandardized terminolog

Human DNA is unavoidably present in metagenomic analyses of human microbiomes. While current protocols remove human DNA before submission to public repositories, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been ove...

Previous benchmarking of differential abundance (DA) analysis methods in microbiome studies have employed synthetic data, simulations, and "real data" examples, but to the best of our knowledge, none ...

An Open Source Journey

Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2023 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and Bioconductor in general.

I almost did not believe this was REAL because it looked too good to be true, and as a Nigerian we've a natural instinct to question everything, especially because of the high rate of fraud and cyber ...

Kicking Off Outreachy: Week One Highlights, a Journey of Contribution and Growth

In this Review, Segata, Waldron and colleagues discuss important key concepts of machine learning that are relevant to microbiologists and provide them with a set of tools essential to apply machine l...