The focus of this thesis is to design, characterize, and apply novel computational methods and molecular systems to interrogate heterogeneous human gut microbiome-related phenomena. In Chapter 2, I design, implement, and characterize a method for embedding co-occurrence patterns derived from massive 16s amplicon datasets. I use this method to 1....
For over two years, an exceptionally contagious new disease known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the globe and killed millions. Organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations have suggested that universal healthcare could have helped countries currently lacking such mitigate the severity of...