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Volume 7, Issue 2 (Suppl)

J Ecosyst Ecography, an open access journal

ISSN:2157-7625

September 18-20, 2017

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September 18-20, 2017 Toronto, Canada

Joint Conference

International Conference on

Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology

Ecology and Ecosystems

Analyzing 'omics data using compositional data analysis

e will demonstrate that the microbiome and transcriptome datasets should be analyzed by a combination of Bayesian

estimation and compositional data approaches to examine the ratios between features giving robust insights into the

structure of high throughput sequencing datasets. Traditional methods of analyzing microbiome or RNA-seq datasets can

be misleading, and not use all the available information. This results in many analyses being dominated by either the most

abundant, or the rarest features. Data collected using high throughput sequencing (HTS) methods are sequence reads mapped

to genomic intervals, and are commonly analyzed as either 'normalized count data’ or 'relative abundance data’. One reason for

these normalizations is to attempt to compensate for the problem that the sequencing instrument imposes an upper bound on

the number of sequence reads. Positive data with an arbitrary bound are 'compositional data' and are subject to the problem of

spurious correlation. Thus ordination, clustering and network analysis become unreliable. A second problem is that the data

are sparse: i.e., contain many 0 values. A third problem is that the largest measurement error is at the low count margins in

these datasets. These issues are all addressed using our approach.

Biography

Greg B Gloor is a professor of biochemistry with broad experience in molecular biology, genetics and genomics. Most recently, he has developed tools to investigate

fundamentals of molecular evolution, microbial ecology and meta-transcriptomics. He is currently working on developing and adapting principled methods to characterize

correlation and differential abundance in sparse, high throughput sequencing data as generated in 16S rRNA gene sequencing surveys, meta-genomics and meta-

transcriptomics. He is the developer and maintainer of the ALDEx2 R package on Bioconductor.

ggloor@uwo.ca

Gregory B Gloor

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Gregory B Gloor, J Ecosyst Ecography 2017, 7:2 (Suppl)

DOI: 10.4172/2157-7625-C1-029