High-throughput sequencing and compositional data

Mon, Aug 7, 10:30 AM

Tianwei YuChair

Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics

7 Presentations

Proportionality-based association measures in count-based compositional data

10:35 AM - 10:50 AM

Kevin McGregor (York University)

Co-authors: Nneka Okaeme (University of Waterloo)

WITHDRAWN Integrative Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics Statistical Analysis using GMCM in Human Microbiome

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Co-authors: Chuwen Liu, Hunyong Cho (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jeffrey Roach (UNC-Chapel Hill), Xiaojing Zheng (Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolia at Chapel Hill), Apoena De Aguiar Ribeiro (UNC-Chapel Hill), Kimon Divaris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Fei Zou (University of North Carolina), Baiming Zou (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Di Wu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Capturing Region-Specific Ambiguity in Microbial Taxonomy Assignment with 16S Amplicon Sequencing

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Meghan Short

Co-authors: Dayakar V. Badri (Science & Technology Center, Hills Pet Nutrition, Inc; Topeka, KS, USA), Kelsey Thompson (Department of Biostatistics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA), Amrisha Bhosle (Department of Biostatistics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA), Tobyn Branck (Department of Biostatistics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA), Eric Franzosa (Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health), Christoph Brockel (Science & Technology Center, Hills Pet Nutrition, Inc; Topeka, KS, USA), Curtis Huttenhower (Harvard School of Public Health)

A flexible generative model based knockoff filter to select microbial biomarkers with FDR control

11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Soham Ghosh (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Co-authors: Zhengzheng Tang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Guanhua Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Bayesian Hierarchical models for mitochondrial DNA data

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Jenny Brynjarsdottir (Case Western Reserve University)

Scale Reliant Inference: with Applications to Sequence Count Data Analysis

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Justin Silverman (Penn State University)

A clustering procedure for 3-way RNA-seq data

12:05 PM - 12:20 PM

Theresa Scharl (BOKU Vienna)

Co-authors: Bettina Gruen (WU Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien)

Session participants

Kimberly Siegmund (University of Southern California, School of Medicine)

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