ulrb

Authors Francisco Pascoal, Paula Branco, Luís Torgo, Catarina Magalhães, Rodrigo Costa

Last update 21 August 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License

Software version identifier 0.1.3, PACKAGES.rds, 0.1.5, 0.1.6, 0.1.8, 0.1.9

Description

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.

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