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. 2019 Aug;37(8):852-857.
doi: 10.1038/s41587-019-0209-9.

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

Evan Bolyen  1 Jai Ram Rideout  1 Matthew R Dillon  1 Nicholas A Bokulich  1 Christian C Abnet  2 Gabriel A Al-Ghalith  3 Harriet Alexander  4   5 Eric J Alm  6   7 Manimozhiyan Arumugam  8 Francesco Asnicar  9 Yang Bai  10   11   12 Jordan E Bisanz  13 Kyle Bittinger  14   15 Asker Brejnrod  8 Colin J Brislawn  16 C Titus Brown  5 Benjamin J Callahan  17   18 Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez  19 John Chase  1 Emily K Cope  1   20 Ricardo Da Silva  19 Christian Diener  21 Pieter C Dorrestein  19 Gavin M Douglas  22 Daniel M Durall  23 Claire Duvallet  6 Christian F Edwardson  24 Madeleine Ernst  19   25 Mehrbod Estaki  26 Jennifer Fouquier  27   28 Julia M Gauglitz  19 Sean M Gibbons  21   29 Deanna L Gibson  30   31 Antonio Gonzalez  32 Kestrel Gorlick  1 Jiarong Guo  33 Benjamin Hillmann  3 Susan Holmes  34 Hannes Holste  32   35 Curtis Huttenhower  36   37 Gavin A Huttley  38 Stefan Janssen  39 Alan K Jarmusch  19 Lingjing Jiang  40 Benjamin D Kaehler  38   41 Kyo Bin Kang  19   42 Christopher R Keefe  1 Paul Keim  1 Scott T Kelley  43 Dan Knights  3   44 Irina Koester  19   45 Tomasz Kosciolek  46 Jorden Kreps  1 Morgan G I Langille  47 Joslynn Lee  48 Ruth Ley  49   50 Yong-Xin Liu  10   11 Erikka Loftfield  2 Catherine Lozupone  28 Massoud Maher  51 Clarisse Marotz  32 Bryan D Martin  52 Daniel McDonald  32 Lauren J McIver  36   37 Alexey V Melnik  19 Jessica L Metcalf  53 Sydney C Morgan  54 Jamie T Morton  32   51 Ahmad Turan Naimey  1 Jose A Navas-Molina  32   51   55 Louis Felix Nothias  19 Stephanie B Orchanian  56 Talima Pearson  1 Samuel L Peoples  57   58 Daniel Petras  19 Mary Lai Preuss  59 Elmar Pruesse  28 Lasse Buur Rasmussen  8 Adam Rivers  60 Michael S Robeson 2nd  61 Patrick Rosenthal  59 Nicola Segata  9 Michael Shaffer  27   28 Arron Shiffer  1 Rashmi Sinha  2 Se Jin Song  32 John R Spear  62 Austin D Swafford  56 Luke R Thompson  63   64 Pedro J Torres  43 Pauline Trinh  65 Anupriya Tripathi  19   32   66 Peter J Turnbaugh  67 Sabah Ul-Hasan  68 Justin J J van der Hooft  69 Fernando Vargas  66 Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza  32 Emily Vogtmann  2 Max von Hippel  70 William Walters  49 Yunhu Wan  2 Mingxun Wang  19 Jonathan Warren  71 Kyle C Weber  60   72 Charles H D Williamson  73 Amy D Willis  74 Zhenjiang Zech Xu  32 Jesse R Zaneveld  75 Yilong Zhang  76 Qiyun Zhu  32 Rob Knight  32   56   35 J Gregory Caporaso  77   78
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Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

Evan Bolyen et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Aug.

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  • Author Correction: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2.
    Bolyen E, Rideout JR, Dillon MR, Bokulich NA, Abnet CC, Al-Ghalith GA, Alexander H, Alm EJ, Arumugam M, Asnicar F, Bai Y, Bisanz JE, Bittinger K, Brejnrod A, Brislawn CJ, Brown CT, Callahan BJ, Caraballo-Rodríguez AM, Chase J, Cope EK, Da Silva R, Diener C, Dorrestein PC, Douglas GM, Durall DM, Duvallet C, Edwardson CF, Ernst M, Estaki M, Fouquier J, Gauglitz JM, Gibbons SM, Gibson DL, Gonzalez A, Gorlick K, Guo J, Hillmann B, Holmes S, Holste H, Huttenhower C, Huttley GA, Janssen S, Jarmusch AK, Jiang L, Kaehler BD, Kang KB, Keefe CR, Keim P, Kelley ST, Knights D, Koester I, Kosciolek T, Kreps J, Langille MGI, Lee J, Ley R, Liu YX, Loftfield E, Lozupone C, Maher M, Marotz C, Martin BD, McDonald D, McIver LJ, Melnik AV, Metcalf JL, Morgan SC, Morton JT, Naimey AT, Navas-Molina JA, Nothias LF, Orchanian SB, Pearson T, Peoples SL, Petras D, Preuss ML, Pruesse E, Rasmussen LB, Rivers A, Robeson MS 2nd, Rosenthal P, Segata N, Shaffer M, Shiffer A, Sinha R, Song SJ, Spear JR, Swafford AD, Thompson LR, Torres PJ, Trinh P, Tripathi A, Turnbaugh PJ, Ul-Hasan S, van der Hooft JJJ, Vargas F, Vázquez-Baeza Y, Vogtmann E, von Hippel M, Walters W, Wan Y, Wang M, Warren J, Weber KC, Williamson … See abstract for full author list ➔ Bolyen E, et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Sep;37(9):1091. doi: 10.1038/s41587-019-0252-6. Nat Biotechnol. 2019. PMID: 31399723
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Fig. 1 |
Fig. 1 |. QIIME 2 provides many interactive visualization tools.
The products of four worked examples are presented here, and interactive versions of these screen captures are available in Supplementary File 1 and at https://github.com/qiime2/paper1. Detailed descriptions and methods, including the commands used to generate each of these visualizations, are provided in Supplementary Methods. a, Unweighted UniFrac principal coordinate analysis plot containing 37,680 samples, illustrating the scalability of QIIME 2. Colors indicate sample type, as described by the Earth Microbiome Project ontology (EMPO). b, Interactive taxonomic composition bar plot illustrating the phylum-level composition of microbial-mat samples collected along a temperature gradient in Yellowstone National Park Hot Spring outflow channels (Steep Cone Geyser). The many interactive controls available in this plot vastly decrease the burden of exploratory analysis over QIIME 1. c, Feature volatility plot (https://msystems.asm.org/content/3/6/e00219-18) illustrating the change in Bifidobacterium abundance over time in breast-fed and formula-fed infants. Temporally interesting features can be interactively discovered with this visualization. Bar charts rank the importance (predictive power for time point) and mean abundance of all microbial features. These bar charts provide an interface for visualizing volatility plots (line plots) of individual features in the context of their importance and abundance; clicking on a bar will display the volatility plot of that feature and highlight in blue that feature’s importance and abundance in the bar charts below. d, Molecular cartography of the human skin surface. Colored spots represent the abundance of the small-molecule cosmetic ingredient sodium laureth sulfate on the human skin. Sample data can be interactively visualized in three-dimensional models, thus supporting the discovery of spatial patterns.
Fig. 2 |
Fig. 2 |. QIIME 2 iteratively records data provenance, ensuring bioinformatics reproducibility.
This simplified diagram illustrates the automatically tracked information regarding the creation of the taxonomy bar plot presented in Fig. 1b. QIIME 2 results (circles) contain network diagrams illustrating the data provenance stored in the result. Actions (quadrilaterals) are applied to QIIME 2 results and generate new results. Arrows indicate the flow of QIIME 2 results through actions. TaxonomicClassifier and FeatureData[Sequence] inputs contain independent provenance (red and blue, respectively) and are provided to a classify action (yellow), which taxonomically annotates sequences. The result of the classify action, a FeatureData[Taxonomy] result, integrates the provenance of both inputs with the classify action. This result is then provided to the barplot action with a FeatureTable[Frequency] input, which shares some provenance with the FeatureData[Sequence] input, because they were generated from the same upstream analysis. The resulting visualization (Fig. 1b) has the complete data provenance and correctly identifies shared processing of inputs. This simplified representation was created manually from the complete provenance graph for the purpose of illustration. An interactive and complete version of this provenance graph (as well as those for other Fig. 1 panels) can be accessed through Supplementary File 1.

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