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Heather K. Durand

Duke UniversityORCID 0000-0003-4059-8484Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2

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Justin D. SilvermaniD· 2 shared Lawrence A. DavidiD· 2 shared Rachael J. BloomiD· 2 shared Sayan MukherjeeiD· 2 shared Sharon Jiang· 1 shared

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintApr 9, 2019

Measuring and Mitigating PCR Bias in Microbiome Data

Justin D. Silverman, Rachael J. Bloom, Sharon Jiang…·Lawrence A. David

The paper measures and mitigates PCR bias in microbiome data using experimental validation and Bayesian models.

10 citations

humanmetagenomics

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GenomicsMicrobiomePeer-reviewedNov 12, 2018

Dynamic linear models guide design and analysis of microbiota studies within artificial human guts

Justin D. Silverman, Heather K. Durand, Rachael J. Bloom…·Lawrence A. David

The paper develops a modeling framework to analyze microbiota dynamics in artificial human guts, revealing technical noise as a major source of variation and identifying sub-daily fluctuations and replicable trajectories.

85 citations

humanmetagenomics

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