Identification of disease-associated microbes from metagenomic data using VTwins. (IMAGE)

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Identification of disease-associated microbes from metagenomic data using VTwins.

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VTwins workflow. By selecting paired samples of different phenotypes but matched taxonomical profile, a new "twin" cohort is reconstructed from the original group cohort. In this way, VTwins can effectively control highly variable metagenomic confounding factors and achieve high significance in the subsequent statistical tests of paired samples.

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