Dr. Greg Gloor

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Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry at The University of Western Ontario

Dr. Jean Macklaim

Postdoctoral Researcher

Daniel Giguere

PhD student

I am developing an R package that provides a graphical user interface for exploratory visualization of omic datasets. It is available for download on Bioconductor, and tutorials are available on my Github. Other current projects include using metagenomics to characterize novel bacterial communities, as well as metatranscriptomics to characterize functional interactions within defined communities.

Brandon Lieng

BMSc. Candidate

I am involved in the development of R packages and scripts to be used in exploratory analysis of compositional data. A workhorse tool for this process is the biplot and my main projects involve implementing different methods of biplot generation. I also explore implementations of different zero replacement methods to be applied to read count data.

Ben Joris

MSc. Candidate

I am currently developing an R package that is designed to filter error-derived operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from count tables in high-throughput sequencing datasets. Sequencing reads with PCR and sequencing errors can be erroneously identified as separate OTUs with many programs. This package identifies error-dervied OTUs and discards them, reducing the number of false OTUs.

Kaitlyn Hobbs

BMSc. Candidate, thesis student

My project is focused on comparing two different methods used to classify taxonomy for next-generation sequencing reads: deducing amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) and clustering reads into operational taxonomic units (OTUs). I am also applying the ASV-based pipeline to open-access research papers to determine if significant findings can be reproduced using an orthogonal method.