Chapter 16 Lab 3

16.1 unsupervised learning:Analysis and interpretation

1. What taxa are driving the axis? Calculate the Spearman correlation between PC1 and the relative abundance of the bacteria and visualize the results in a bar plot.

2. Visualize the dominant taxonomic group of each sample by colour on PCoA plot

3. Visualize gender by colour on PCoA plot

Borman, Tuomas, Henrik Eckermann, Chouaib Benchraka, and Leo Lahti. 2021. Introduction to Microbiome Data Science with Miaverse. Radboud Summer School. microbiome.github.io/course_2021_radboud/.