EMPress Enables Tree-Guided, Interactive, and Exploratory Analyses of Multi-omic Data Sets
Kalen Cantrell, Marcus W. Fedarko, Gibraan Rahman, Daniel McDonald, Yimeng Yang, Thant Zaw, Antonio González, Stefan Janssen, Mehrbod Estaki, Niina Haiminen, Kristen L. Beck, Qiyun Zhu, Erfan Sayyari, James T. Morton, George Armstrong, Anupriya Tripathi, Julia M. Gauglitz, Clarisse Marotz, Nathaniel L. Matteson, Cameron Martino, Jon G. Sanders, Anna Paola Carrieri, Se Jin Song, Austin D. Swafford, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Kristian G. Andersen, Laxmi Parida, Ho‐Cheol Kim, Yoshiki Vázquez‐Baeza, Rob Knight
Abstract
Phylogenetic trees are integral data structures for the analysis of microbial communities. Recent work has also shown the utility of trees constructed from certain metabolomic data sets, further highlighting their importance in microbiome research. The ever-growing scale of modern microbiome surveys has led to numerous challenges in visualizing these data. In this paper we used five diverse data sets to showcase the versatility and scalability of EMPress, an interactive web visualization tool. EMPress addresses the growing need for exploratory analysis tools that can accommodate large, complex multi-omic data sets.