title: MetaCoMET: a web platform for discovery and visualization of the core microbiome.
abstract: A key component of the analysis of microbiome datasets is the identification of OTUs shared between multiple experimental conditions, commonly referred to as the core microbiome.
  
  
  
  We present a web platform named MetaCoMET that enables the discovery and visualization of the core microbiome and provides a comparison of the relative abundance and diversity patterns between subsets of samples within a microbiome dataset. MetaCoMET provides an efficient and interactive graphical interface for analyzing each subset defined by the union or disjunction of groups within the Venn diagram, and includes a graphical taxonomy summary, alpha diversity metrics, Principal Coordinate analysis, abundance-based heatmaps, and a chart indicating the geographic distribution of each sample.
  
  
  
  MetaCoMET is a user-friendly and efficient web platform freely accessible at http://probes.pw.usda.gov/MetaCoMET or http://aegilops.wheat.ucdavis.edu/MetaCoMET CONTACT: devin.coleman-derr@ars.usda.govSupplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, Albany, CA 94710, USA.|Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.|USDA-ARS, Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA 94710, USA.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.|USDA-ARS, Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA 94710, USA.
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, Albany, CA 94710, USA.
authors.forename: Yong Q
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.|USDA-ARS, Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, CA 94710, USA.
authors.forename: Devin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Coleman-Derr
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D064307:Microbiota; D012984:Software