Reply to Sun et al., "Identifying Composition Novelty in Microbiome Studies: Improvement of Prediction Accuracy"

Xiaoquan Su^1,2,3, Gongchao Jing^4,2,3, Daniel McDonald⁵+8

• ¹Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China suxq@qibebt.ac.cn robknight@ucsd.edu xujian@qibebt.ac.cn.+8