Modular Software for Mediation Analysis of Microbiome Data

Explore modular software approaches for conducting mediation analysis on microbiome data in this 42-minute conference talk from the Computational Genomics Summer Institute. Learn how to apply causal mediation analysis techniques specifically designed for microbiome research, building on foundational work in psychological methods and compositional data analysis. Discover the multimedia framework for multimodal mediation analysis that addresses the unique challenges of microbiome datasets, including their compositional nature and high dimensionality. Examine practical implementations of mediation analysis software tools that can handle the complex relationships between treatments, microbiome mediators, and health outcomes. Understand how to leverage modular software design principles to create flexible and reusable analysis pipelines for microbiome mediation studies, with insights drawn from recent advances in compositional mediation analysis and multimodal data integration approaches.