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bio-microbiome-diversity-analysis

Alpha and beta diversity analysis for microbiome data. Calculate within-sample richness, evenness, and between-sample dissimilarity with phyloseq and vegan. Use when comparing community composition across samples or testing for group differences in microbiome structure.

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SKILL.md

Diversity Analysis

Create phyloseq Object

r
library(phyloseq)
library(vegan)
library(ggplot2)

seqtab <- readRDS('seqtab_nochim.rds')
taxa <- readRDS('taxa.rds')
metadata <- read.csv('sample_metadata.csv', row.names = 1)

ps <- phyloseq(otu_table(seqtab, taxa_are_rows = FALSE),
               tax_table(taxa),
               sample_data(metadata))
taxa_names(ps) <- paste0('ASV', seq(ntaxa(ps)))

Alpha Diversity

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# Calculate multiple metrics
alpha_div <- estimate_richness(ps, measures = c('Observed', 'Chao1', 'Shannon', 'Simpson'))
alpha_div$SampleID <- rownames(alpha_div)
alpha_div <- merge(alpha_div, sample_data(ps), by = 'row.names')

# Statistical test
kruskal.test(Shannon ~ Group, data = alpha_div)

# Pairwise comparisons
pairwise.wilcox.test(alpha_div$Shannon, alpha_div$Group, p.adjust.method = 'BH')

Alpha Diversity Plots

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plot_richness(ps, x = 'Group', measures = c('Observed', 'Shannon')) +
    geom_boxplot() +
    theme_minimal()

# Custom plot
ggplot(alpha_div, aes(x = Group, y = Shannon, fill = Group)) +
    geom_boxplot() +
    geom_jitter(width = 0.2, alpha = 0.5) +
    theme_minimal() +
    labs(y = 'Shannon Diversity Index')

Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity

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library(picante)

# Requires phylogenetic tree in phyloseq object
# Build tree from ASV sequences
library(DECIPHER)
library(phangorn)

seqs <- refseq(ps)
alignment <- AlignSeqs(seqs, anchor = NA)
phang_align <- phyDat(as(alignment, 'matrix'), type = 'DNA')
dm <- dist.ml(phang_align)
tree <- NJ(dm)
tree <- midpoint(tree)
phy_tree(ps) <- tree

# Calculate Faith's PD
otu_mat <- as.matrix(t(otu_table(ps)))
faith_pd <- pd(otu_mat, phy_tree(ps), include.root = TRUE)
alpha_div$PD <- faith_pd$PD

Rarefaction Curves

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# Check if sequencing depth is adequate
rarecurve_data <- vegan::rarecurve(t(otu_table(ps)), step = 100, sample = min(sample_sums(ps)))

# ggplot version with ggrare (install from GitHub)
# devtools::install_github('gauravsk/ranacapa')
library(ranacapa)
p_rare <- ggrare(ps, step = 100, color = 'Group', se = FALSE)
p_rare + theme_minimal() + labs(title = 'Rarefaction Curves')

Rarefaction

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# Check sequencing depth
sample_sums(ps)

# Rarefy to minimum depth
ps_rarefied <- rarefy_even_depth(ps, sample.size = min(sample_sums(ps)),
                                  rngseed = 42, replace = FALSE)

Beta Diversity

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# Calculate distance matrices
bray <- phyloseq::distance(ps, method = 'bray')       # Bray-Curtis
jaccard <- phyloseq::distance(ps, method = 'jaccard') # Jaccard
unifrac <- UniFrac(ps, weighted = TRUE)               # Weighted UniFrac (requires tree)

# Ordination
ord_bray <- ordinate(ps, method = 'PCoA', distance = bray)

# Plot
plot_ordination(ps, ord_bray, color = 'Group') +
    stat_ellipse(level = 0.95) +
    theme_minimal()

PERMANOVA

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# Test for group differences
metadata <- data.frame(sample_data(ps))
permanova_result <- adonis2(bray ~ Group, data = metadata, permutations = 999)
permanova_result

# With covariates
adonis2(bray ~ Group + Age + Sex, data = metadata, permutations = 999)

Beta Dispersion

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# Test homogeneity of dispersions (assumption of PERMANOVA)
beta_disp <- betadisper(bray, metadata$Group)
permutest(beta_disp)
plot(beta_disp)

NMDS Ordination

r
ord_nmds <- ordinate(ps, method = 'NMDS', distance = bray)

# Check stress
ord_nmds$stress  # Should be < 0.2

plot_ordination(ps, ord_nmds, color = 'Group') +
    theme_minimal()

Distance Metrics Comparison

Metric Type Considers Abundance Phylogeny
Bray-Curtis Quantitative Yes No
Jaccard Binary No No
UniFrac (unweighted) Binary No Yes
UniFrac (weighted) Quantitative Yes Yes

Related Skills

  • amplicon-processing - Generate ASV table
  • differential-abundance - Identify taxa driving differences
  • data-visualization/ggplot2-fundamentals - Custom diversity plots

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