What problem does it solve?
This skill addresses the statistical pitfalls of microbiome data, such as compositionality and spurious correlations, by providing a rigorous, audit-ready pipeline for amplicon and shotgun metagenomic analysis.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Compositional-Aware Analysis: Implements ANCOM-BC2, ALDEx2, and MaAsLin2 to ensure statistical validity for count-based microbiome data.
- End-to-End Pipeline: Supports the full workflow from raw FASTQ processing via DADA2 to diversity metrics and differential abundance testing.
- Use Case: A researcher needs to compare the gut microbiome composition between two patient groups while accounting for age and sex as covariates; this skill provides the exact compositional-aware methods required to generate reliable, reproducible results.
Quick Start
Use the microbiome skill to process the demultiplexed FASTQ files in the current directory using the DADA2 pipeline and generate an ASV table.