Metatranscriptomics presents a wickedly hard problem when analyzed by high throughput sequencing because of the many moving parts: the abundance and occurrence of different species can vary along with the abundance and occurrence of genes and their transcripts. Join us as Dr. Greg Gloor shows how different tools work with this data and similar and presents a strategy based on compositional data analysis that can extract useful information.

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