Northern Arizona University

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin

Taxonomic classification of marker-gene sequences is an important step in microbiome analysis. We present q2-feature-classifier (https://github.com/qiime2/q2-feature-classifier)...

Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity

As a compromise to the factors listed above, we propose using an open-reference method to enhance OTU stability. This type of method clusters sequences against a database and in...

Small Changes in Nutrition and Physical Activity Promote Weight Loss and Maintenance: 3-Month Evidence from the ASPIRE Randomized Trial

More modest behavioral changes are capable of promoting weight loss, decreasing adiposity markers and sustaining these changes over 3 months. Longer-term studies comparing this ...