A statistical model for describing and simulating microbial community profiles

• Siyuan Ma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2313-6448

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• Boyu Ren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5300-1184

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• Himel Mallick,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-2429

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• Yo Sup Moon,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-4607

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• Emma Schwager,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7385-8994

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• Sagun Maharjan,

  Roles Resources, Software

  Affiliations Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-2804

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• Timothy L. Tickle,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6592-6272

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• Yiren Lu,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rachel N. Carmody,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7505-9646

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• Eric A. Franzosa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8798-7068

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• Lucas Janson,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Curtis Huttenhower

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu

  Affiliations Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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