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title: 'lefser: R implementation of the LEfSE method for microbiome biomarker discovery'
version: 1.23.0
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae707
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lefser
abstract: lefser is the R implementation of the popular microbiome biomarker discovery
  too, LEfSe. It uses the Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon-Rank Sum test, and Linear
  Discriminant Analysis to find biomarkers from two-level classes (and optional sub-classes).
authors:
- family-names: Oh
  given-names: Sehyun
  email: shbrief@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9490-3061
- family-names: Khleborodova
  given-names: Asya
  email: asya.bioconductor@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'Lefser: Implementation of metagenomic biomarker discovery tool, LEfSe, in
    R'
  authors:
  - family-names: Khleborodova
    given-names: Asya
    email: asya.bioconductor@gmail.com
  - family-names: Gamboa-Tuz
    given-names: Samuel D
  - family-names: Ramos
    given-names: Marcel
  - family-names: Segata
    given-names: Nicola
  - family-names: Waldron
    given-names: Levi
  - family-names: Oh
    given-names: Sehyun
    email: shbrief@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9490-3061
  journal: Bioinformatics
  year: '2024'
  month: '11'
  issn: 1367-4811
  doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae707
  url: https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae707/7908399
  start: btae707
repository: https://waldronlab.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/waldronlab/lefser
commit: a0a8ddd4c8818b5c93a6b67bf75b3eee145526b4
url: https://github.com/waldronlab/lefser
date-released: '2026-04-22'
contact:
- family-names: Oh
  given-names: Sehyun
  email: shbrief@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9490-3061