Twins' microbiome data from 278 individuals

dmn_se is a dataset on twins' microbiome where samples are stratified by their community composition through Dirichlet Multinomial Mixtures (DMM). It was derived from the DirichletMultinomial package.

data(dmn_se)

Format

A SummarizedExperiment with 130 features and 278 samples. The rowData contains no taxonomic information. The colData includes:

pheno

participant's weight condition (Lean, Overwt and Obese)

References

Holmes I, Harris K, Quince C (2012). Dirichlet Multinomial Mixtures: Generative Models for Microbial Metagenomics. PLoS ONE 7(2): e30126. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0030126

Turnbaugh PJ, Hamady M, Yatsunenko T, Cantarel BL, Duncan A, et al. (2009). A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins. Nature 457: 480–484. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07540

See also

mia-datasets calculateDMN

Author

Turnbaugh, PJ et al.