Description
Turn microbiome data into a clear and defensible community profile
The Microbiome Community Profiling Practical guides you through the essential steps for preparing, checking, and exploring microbial community data.
You will learn how to identify quality issues, apply appropriate filtering, organize taxonomic information, and communicate community composition using meaningful summaries and visualizations.
This practical focuses on the decisions that make an analysis trustworthy—not simply producing charts. By the end, you will understand how data-preparation choices affect the biological patterns you observe and how to document your workflow clearly.
What you will practice
- Assess microbiome data quality
- Filter low-quality or uninformative features
- Review taxonomic classifications
- Summarize microbial composition
- Create clear composition visualizations
- Interpret results responsibly
- Build a reproducible analysis workflow
Who this practical is for
This practical is designed for students, researchers, laboratory scientists, and data analysts who want hands-on experience working with microbiome community data.
Some familiarity with biological data is helpful, but advanced microbiome expertise is not required.
Continue your microbiome analysis journey
Continue with Practical 002: Microbiome Alpha & Beta Diversity to quantify within-sample diversity and compare microbial communities.
