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Dhwani Desai

Dalhousie UniversityORCID 0000-0002-1447-5360Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:human· 1

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintApr 13, 2025

JarrVis: Visualising Taxa-function relationships from meta-omic data

Dhwani Desai, A. Comeau, Morgan G. I. Langille

JarrVis is an R Shiny tool that visualizes taxa-function relationships from meta-omic data, demonstrating its utility with three case studies.

DOI 10.1101/2025.04.13.648596

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BioinformaticsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedJan 17, 2022

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Microbiome differential abundance methods produce disturbingly different results across 38 datasets

Jacob T. Nearing, Gavin M. Douglas, Molly G. Hayes…·Morgan G. I. Langille

In 38 two-group 16S rRNA datasets, 14 differential abundance tools disagreed sharply; ALDEx2 and ANCOM-II were conservative and consistent, while edgeR and LEfSe inflated false positives.

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