Hierarchical Meta-Storms enables comprehensive and rapid comparison of microbiome functional profiles on a large scale using hierarchical dissimilarity metrics and parallel computing.

Abstract

It is coded in C/C++ with parallel computing and released in two alternative forms: a standalone software (https://github.com/qdu-bioinfo/hierarchical-meta-storms) and an equivalent R package (https://github.com/qdu-bioinfo/hrms). Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics Advances online.