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  • Microbiology
  • Computational Biology
  • Ecology

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  • Microbiomes are intricate microbial communities influenced by microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions.
  • These interactions are crucial for host health, disease progression, and clinical outcomes.
  • A comprehensive understanding of the microbiome necessitates analyzing these complex interplays.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce network theory as a holistic methodology for microbiome analysis.
  • To provide a detailed, step-by-step guide for building, analyzing, and visualizing microbiome networks.
  • To facilitate a deeper understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes within microbiomes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing operational taxonomic unit (OTU) tables as input data.
  • Applying network theory and graph-theoretical approaches for analysis.
  • Implementing R and RStudio with extensively commented code snippets for reproducibility.

Main Results:

  • Demonstration of a systematic process for microbiome network construction.
  • Detailed analysis of network properties to understand microbial community structure.
  • Visualization techniques to represent complex microbial interactions.

Conclusions:

  • Network theory provides a powerful framework for analyzing complex microbiome data.
  • The described methods enable researchers to model and understand microbial interactions effectively.
  • This approach enhances the study of host-microbiome dynamics in health and disease.