Description
Build a foundation in microbiome community analysis
The Microbiome Analysis Bundle: Community Profiling + Diversity combines two complementary CDI Practicals into one guided learning pathway.
Begin by preparing, quality-checking, and profiling microbial community data. Then progress to measuring alpha diversity, calculating beta-diversity distances, visualizing community relationships, and evaluating group differences responsibly.
Each practical includes an online guide and downloadable project files containing synthetic teaching data, R scripts, a reproducible R environment, and a learner README.
This bundle includes
- Practical 001: Microbiome Community Profiling
- Practical 002: Microbiome Alpha & Beta Diversity
What you will practice
- Assess microbiome data quality
- Filter low-quality or uninformative features
- Review taxonomic classifications
- Summarize and visualize microbial composition
- Calculate and interpret alpha-diversity measures
- Calculate beta-diversity distance matrices
- Visualize community relationships using ordination
- Evaluate community differences with PERMANOVA
- Review assumptions and analytical limitations
- Build reproducible microbiome analysis workflows
Recommended learning order
- Complete Community Profiling first to prepare and understand the microbial community data.
- Continue with Alpha & Beta Diversity to quantify diversity and compare communities.
Who this bundle is for
This bundle is designed for students, researchers, laboratory scientists, and data analysts who want hands-on experience with foundational microbiome analysis.
Some familiarity with biological data and basic statistical concepts is helpful, but advanced microbiome expertise is not required.
