ulrb: Unsupervised Learning Based Definition of Microbial Rare Biosphere
A tool to define the rare biosphere. 'ulrb' solves the problem of the definition of rarity by replacing arbitrary thresholds with an unsupervised machine learning algorithm (partitioning around medoids, or k-medoids). This algorithm works for any type of microbiome data, provided there is an abundance table. This method also works for non-microbiome data.
| Version: | 0.1.8 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.10) |
| Imports: | cluster, dplyr, ggplot2, purrr, rlang, stats, tidyr, clusterSim, gridExtra |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, stringr, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), vegan |
| Published: | 2025-07-07 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.ulrb |
| Author: | Francisco Pascoal 
[aut, cre],
Paula Branco
[aut],
Luís Torgo [aut],
Rodrigo Costa
[aut],
Catarina Magalhães
[aut] |
| Maintainer: | Francisco Pascoal <fpascoal1996 at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/pascoalf/ulrb/issues |
| License: | GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: | https://pascoalf.github.io/ulrb/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Citation: | ulrb citation info |
| Materials: | README |
| CRAN checks: | ulrb results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | ulrb.html , ulrb.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Glossary (source, R code) Integration of ulrb in a simple microbial ecology workflow (source, R code) Alternative classifications with ulrb (source, R code) Tutorial to define rare biosphere with ulrb (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | ulrb_0.1.8.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: ulrb_0.1.8.zip, r-release: ulrb_0.1.8.zip, r-oldrel: ulrb_0.1.8.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): ulrb_0.1.8.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ulrb_0.1.8.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ulrb_0.1.8.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ulrb_0.1.8.tgz |
| Old sources: | ulrb archive |
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