Manuel E. Lladser

DartUniFrac is a fast, scalable algorithm for microbiome analysis that matches the statistical performance of exact UniFrac methods.

The paper sparsifies phylogenetic covariance matrices using Haar-like wavelets and validates the statistical significance of splits in a microbial mat dataset.

The paper constructs a periodic table of bacterial taxa to organize and visualize bacterial diversity based on genomic trait predictions.

The paper introduces latent weight to quantify contamination in symbolic datasets and applies it to DNA methylation data, finding overrepresentation of specific methylation patterns when contamination is considered.