As with some of the examples we saw during the lecture, microbiome data often presents relationships among taxa or samples that are well described by a network. In the case of taxa, this often takes the familiar form of a tree representing the evolutionary relationship among taxa.
In this lab you will learn and practice tree manipulation, tree visualization, network construction and manipulation, and network visualization. Visualizing networks could be a workshop unto itself, and I’ve provided a link to just such a workshop.
The goal of this tutorial is to get you started with some common tree and network visualizations used to display, explore, and understand microbiome data.