EasyMicroPlot: An Efficient and Convenient R package in Microbiome DownStream Analysis and Visualization for Clinical Study

EasyMicroPlot package aims to provide an easy-to-use microbiome analysis tool on R platform that accomplishes the core tasks of metagenomic down-stream analysis from start to finish, specially designed by screening popular microbial analysis and visualization metric in recent clinic studies.

INSTALLATION

Github

install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github("https://github.com/xielab2017/EasyMicroPlot",subdir='Version_0.5')

Gitee
Make sure git tool on your computer installed correctly.

install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_git("https://gitee.com/xielab2017/EasyMicroPlot/",subdir='Version_0.5')

USAGE and Tutorial

• Chinese version

  https://xielab2017.github.io/EasyMicroPlot_tutorial/

• English version

  In the plan

Version update

• 0.5.1.25

1. Fix a bug in EMP_COR_SANKEY when modifying the edge colour

• 0.5.1.24

1. Fix the method parameter of adonis2 in the betaplot function.

• 0.5.1.23

1. Add Student's t-test and ellipse function for beta_plot moudle.

2. Add cex.axis parameter to fix display error for meta_summary

3. Fix some bugs.

Next update

The next version will be a giant change, and we will rebuild the EMP package for more exciting features.

• Introduce tidyverse grammar into analysis process
• Integate omics data into EMP package
• Design more interactive function for new beginers
• Add more beautiful design for figures

HOW TO CITE

If you use EMP in published research, please cite this article:

Bingdong Liu, Liujing Huang, Zhihong Liu, Xiaohan Pan, Zongbing Cui, Jiyang Pan, Liwei Xie. EasyMicroPlot : An Efficient and Convenient R Package in Microbiome Downstream Analysis and Visualization for Clinical Study. Frontiers in Genetics. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.803627