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  • Data visualization
  • Statistical modeling

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  • Repeated measures microbiome studies provide insights into microbial community dynamics and health.
  • Visualizing complex, multivariate microbiome data with repeated measures and covariates is challenging.
  • Distinguishing biological patterns from noise in such data requires advanced methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an enhanced visualization framework for repeated measures microbiome data.
  • To improve the clarity of microbial community variations across time or clusters.
  • To effectively adjust for covariates and the repeated measures structure in microbiome data analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing Principal Coordinates Analysis (PCoA) for dimensionality reduction.
  • Employing linear mixed models (LMM) to adjust for covariates.
  • Integrating LMM-adjusted PCoA for enhanced visualization of microbiome data.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method effectively mitigates the influence of nuisance covariates.
  • Key axes of microbiome variation are more clearly identified.
  • Demonstrated utility in simulated and real-world microbiome datasets.

Conclusions:

  • The refined visualization technique offers a robust tool for microbiome research.
  • Enhances the exploration and understanding of microbial community dynamics.
  • Facilitates clearer interpretation of longitudinal and clustered microbiome data.