Here, the authors present Sparse Estimation of Correlations among Microbiomes (SECOM), a tool devised to characterize both linear and nonlinear relationships in microbiome data. When applied to human skin and infant gut microbiome data, SECOM is able to retrieve taxa interactions undescribed by previous methods.
- Huang Lin
- Merete Eggesbø
- Shyamal Das Peddada
