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  • Microbiology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data Visualization

Background:

  • Microbiome data are high-dimensional and sparse, necessitating dimensionality reduction for effective visualization.
  • Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) following beta diversity calculations is the standard method for microbiome data dimensionality reduction.
  • Existing methods may not fully capture complex relationships within microbiome datasets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) as an alternative dimensionality reduction technique for microbiome beta diversity data.
  • To demonstrate the benefits and limitations of UMAP in visualizing microbiome data.
  • To provide recommendations for UMAP parameter selection to preserve global data geometry.

Main Methods:

  • Application of UMAP to microbiome beta diversity distance matrices.
  • Comparison of UMAP with Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) using real microbiome datasets.
  • Analysis of UMAP's ability to represent clusters and correlate biological variation.

Main Results:

  • UMAP improves the representation of microbial community clusters, particularly those with substructure.
  • UMAP better correlates biological variation with a reduced number of embedding coordinates.
  • UMAP demonstrates effectiveness across various beta diversity metrics compatible with PCoA.

Conclusions:

  • UMAP serves as a valuable complementary visualization method for microbiome beta diversity studies.
  • UMAP enhances the visualization quality and correspondence with biological and technical variables.
  • UMAP is recommended for routine use due to its improved representation and correlation capabilities.