Calour: an Interactive, Microbe-Centric Analysis Tool

• Published in: mSystems Vol. 4; no. 1
• Main Authors: Xu, Zhenjiang Zech, Amir, Amnon, Sanders, Jon, Zhu, Qiyun, Morton, James T., Bletz, Molly C., Tripathi, Anupriya, Huang, Shi, McDonald, Daniel, Jiang, Lingjing, Knight, Rob
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 01.01.2019
• Subjects: analysis; Application programming interface; Contaminants; contamination; Datasets; Experiments; Exploration; heatmap; Hypercapnia; Hypotheses; Hypoxia; Intestinal microflora; Metadata; Methods and Protocols; microbiome; Microbiomes; Microbiota; Microorganisms; Novel Systems Biology Techniques; Ordination; Skin; Statistical methods; Taxonomy; Visualization; La Jolla California; California; United States > US; Massachusetts; heatmap; visualization; analysis; microbiome; contamination

Calour allows us to identify interesting microbial patterns and generate novel biological hypotheses by interactively inspecting microbiome studies and incorporating annotation databases and convenient statistical tools. Calour can be used as a first-step tool for microbiome data exploration. Microb...