EMPress Enables Tree-Guided, Interactive, and Exploratory Analyses of Multi-omic Data Sets

• DOI: 10.1128/msystems.01216-20
• Publication Date: 2021-03-15T13:32:02Z
• Authors: Kalen Cantrell; Marcus W. Fedarko; Gibraan Rahman; Daniel McDonald; Yimeng Yang; Thant Zaw; Antonio Gonzalez; Stefan Janssen; Mehrbod Estaki; Niina Haiminen; Kristen L. Beck; Qiyun Zhu; Erfan Sayyari; James T. Morton; George Armstrong; Anupriya Tripathi; Julia M. Gauglitz; Clarisse Marotz; Nathaniel L. Matt...; Cameron Martino; Jon G. Sanders; Anna Paola Carrieri; Se Jin Song; Austin D. Swafford; Pieter C. Dorrestein; Kristian G. Andersen; Laxmi Parida; Ho-Cheol Kim; Yoshiki Vázquez-B...; Rob Knight
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Human Genome; 610; bioinformatics; Biological Sciences; microbial ecology; Microbiology; QR1-502; 004; 03 medical and health sciences; Information and Computing Sciences; Augmented Reality and Games; Genetics; Graphics; Research Article

Phylogenetic trees are integral data structures for the analysis of microbial communities. Recent work has also shown the utility of trees constructed from certain metabolomic data sets, further highlighting their importance in microbiome research.