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rbiom

Read/Write, Analyze, and Visualize 'BIOM' Data

v2.2.1 · Jun 27, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

A toolkit for working with Biological Observation Matrix ('BIOM') files. Read/write all 'BIOM' formats. Compute rarefaction, alpha diversity, and beta diversity (including 'UniFrac'). Summarize counts by taxonomic level. Subset based on metadata. Generate visualizations and statistical analyses. CPU intensive operations are coded in C for speed.

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies mgcv ape dplyr emmeans fillpattern ggbeeswarm ggnewscale ggplot2 ggrepel ggtext jsonlite magrittr parallelly patchwork pillar +5 more dependencies rbiom

Version History

new 2.2.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.2.1 ← 2.2.0 diff Jun 26, 2025
updated 2.2.0 ← 2.1.2 diff Apr 3, 2025
updated 2.1.2 ← 2.1.1 diff Mar 17, 2025
updated 2.1.1 ← 2.0.13 diff Mar 9, 2025
updated 2.0.13 ← 2.0.10 diff Jan 23, 2025
updated 2.0.10 ← 2.0.7 diff Jan 18, 2025
updated 2.0.7 ← 1.0.3 diff Jan 10, 2025
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff Nov 4, 2021
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.0 diff May 28, 2020
new 1.0.0 May 25, 2020