q2-longitudinal: Longitudinal and Paired-Sample Analyses of Microbiome Data

Authors: Nicholas A. Bokulich, Matthew R. Dillon, Yilong Zhang, Jai Ram Rideout, Evan Bolyen, Huilin Li, Paul S. Albert, J. Gregory Caporaso - mSystems 2018 cited by 344

Longitudinal sampling provides valuable information about temporal trends and subject/population heterogeneity. We describe q2-longitudinal, a software plugin for longitudinal analysis of microbiome data sets in QIIME 2. The availability of longitudinal statistics and visualizations in the QIIME 2 framework will make the analysis of longitudinal data more accessible to microbiome researchers.