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Microbiome meta-analysis and cross-disease comparison enabled by the SIAMCAT machine learning toolbox

Jakob Wirbel, Konrad Zych, Morgan Essex and 6 more

Genome Biology · 2021 · CC BY

doi:10.1101/2020.02.06.931808

Abstract

Supplementary Information. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13059-021-02306-1.

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