soil microbiology
- Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary ScienceBalance Trees Reveal Microbial Niche Differentiation
By explicitly accounting for the compositional nature of 16S rRNA gene data through the concept of balances, balance trees yield novel biological insights into niche differentiation. The software to perform this analysis is available under an open-source license and can be obtained at https://github.com/biocore/gneiss .