Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data
Oregon State University · Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory
Abstract
Community-level data, the type generated by an increasing number of metabarcoding studies, is often graphed as stacked bar charts or pie graphs that use color to represent taxa. These graph types do not convey the hierarchical structure of taxonomic classifications and are limited by the use of color for categories. As an alternative, we developed metacoder, an R package for easily parsing, manipulating, and graphing publication-ready plots of hierarchical data. Metacoder includes a dynamic and flexible function that can parse most text-based formats that contain taxonomic classifications, taxon names, taxon identifiers, or sequence identifiers. Metacoder can then subset, sample, and order this parsed data…
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- Computer science
- Parsing
- Visualization
- Identifier
- Data visualization
- Bar chart
- Data mining
- Tree (set theory)