Integrative analysis across metagenomic taxonomic classifiers: A case study of the gut microbiome in aging and longevity in the Integrative Longevity Omics Study

• Tanya T. Karagiannis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Tanya.Karagiannis@tuftsmedicine.org

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4065-495X

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• Ye Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Translational and Science Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sarah Bald,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Program, Faculty of Computing and Data Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Albert Tai,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Immunology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Data Intensive Studies Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Eric R. Reed,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Sofiya Milman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Stacy L. Andersen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Section, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Thomas T. Perls,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Geriatrics Section, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Daniel Segrè,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, Faculty of Computing and Data Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Paola Sebastiani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Bioinformatics Program, Faculty of Computing and Data Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Data Intensive Studies Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Meghan I. Short

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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