Reply to Sun et al., "Identifying Composition Novelty in Microbiome Studies: Improvement of Prediction Accuracy"

Affiliations

• ¹ Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China suxq@qibebt.ac.cn robknight@ucsd.edu xujian@qibebt.ac.cn.
• ² Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
• ³ University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
• ⁴ Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China.
• ⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA suxq@qibebt.ac.cn robknight@ucsd.edu xujian@qibebt.ac.cn.
• ⁸ Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
• ⁹ Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.