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An expert’s view: Why microbiome data should be treated as compositional?

In this video Dr. Jonathon Baker from the J. Craig Venter Institute talks about the importance of treating microbiome data as compositional.

The field of metagenomics evolves very rapidly, and resources we have available for analyses allow us to reassess the methods used in the past.

To finish our series ‘An expert’s view’, we invite Dr. Jonathon Baker from the J. Craig Venter Institute to talk to us on the importance of treating microbiome data as compositional. Dr. Baker is an expert microbiologist that bridges the fields of microbiology and bioinformatics.

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