This repository contain the data and R codes part of this publication:

The power of microbiome studies: some considerations on which alpha and beta metrics to use and how to report analysis the results

Kers J.G ¹ Saccenti ²

¹Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE, Wageningen, the Netherlands
²Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Corresponding Author

• Edoardo Saccenti, Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University, Stippeneng 4, 6708 HB, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Email: edoardo.saccenti@wur.nl; Tel: +31 (0)317 482018; Fax: +31 (0) 3174 83829

Below is a short descriptions of the files.

Structure:    
KersSaccenti-Power/      

|------- Data/    # biom and metadata files
		|------- humanmicrobiome.biom1 
		|------- humanmicrobiome.tree 
		|------- metadata_table.csv #metadata

|------- RCode # Code file with analysis workflow    
		|------- HMP_alpha_beta.R
		|------- SimulatedData_alpha.R
		|------- SimulatedData_beta.R
		
|------- Simulated Data 
		|--- Deletion files
		|--- Reduction files