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Wasserstein β-Diversity Metrics over Graphs: Derivation, Efficient Computation and Applications

Creator:

McClelland, Jason

Abstract:

Microbial ecology has been transformed by metagenomics, the study of the genetic in-formation in entire communities of organisms. In the following we develop metagenomic tools arising from the classic Wasserstein metric as applied to questions regarding the diversity between microbial communities. We provide a novel proof of the characteriza-tion of...

Resource Type:

Dissertation