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Measuring microbial compensation with additive gene-function profiles New
The compensation question needs an additive functional measurement. HUMAnN calculates pathway abundance separately for the community and each species, so species pathway values need not sum to the community total. In contrast, gene-family strata are additive. This is documented i…
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