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ReviewGenes2023

Methodological Considerations in Longitudinal Analyses of Microbiome Data: A Comprehensive Review.

Ruiqi Lyu, Yixiang Qu, Kimon Divaris, Di Wu

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Review in Genes, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Design, processing, and modeling for longitudinal multiomics microbiome data.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  11. Application and Challenges of Using ProbioticDiseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ruiqi LyuComputational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7062-1476
Yixiang QuDepartment of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-7485-7895
Kimon DivarisDivision of Pediatric and Public Health, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1290-7251
Di WuDepartment of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8331-2357

Funding

Genome-Wide Association Study of Early Childhood CariesU01DE025046 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DIVARIS, KIMON · 2015 to 2019
$8.4M
Project 2: Microbial determinants of HIV broadly-neutralizing antibody precursor induction in infantsP01AI178377 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Kristina De Paris · 2023 to 2026
$7.7M
Investigating the microbial basis of early childhood caries via metagenomics and metatranscriptomics analysesR03DE028983 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WU, DI · 2019 to 2020
$299k
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) P01-AI178377NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI178377NIDCR NIH HHS R03 DE028983NIDCR NIH HHS U01 DE025046the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) R03-DE028983, U01-DE025046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological processes underlying health and disease are inherently dynamic and are best understood when characterized in a time-informed manner. In this comprehensive review, we discuss challenges inherent in time-series microbiome data analyses and compare available approaches and methods to overcome them. Appropriate handling of longitudinal microbiome data can shed light on important roles, functions, patterns, and potential interactions between large numbers of microbial taxa or genes in the context of health, disease, or interventions. We present a comprehensive review and comparison of existing microbiome time-series analysis methods, for both preprocessing and downstream analyses, including differential analysis, clustering, network inference, and trait classification. We posit that the careful selection and appropriate utilization of computational tools for longitudinal microbiome analyses can help advance our understanding of the dynamic host-microbiome relationships that underlie health-maintaining homeostases, progressions to disease-promoting dysbioses, as well as phases of physiologic development like those encountered in childhood.

Indexed as

DysbiosisMicrobiotaCluster AnalysisDisease ProgressionHomeostasisHumansdeep learninglongitudinal analysismicrobiome datareviewstatistical methods

Identifiers

PMID38254941
PMCPMC11154524

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