A successful four-day “Microbiome Sequence and Statistical Analysis” workshop took place at UConn School of Nursing.

Dr. Kendra Maas, Ph.D., the lecturer of the workshop introduced two powerful open-source software Mothur and R.

A range of key topics was covered in the workshop including:

• Experiment design considerations
• Assessing data quality
• Cleaning sequencing data
• OTU methods
• Alpha and beta diversity
• Multivariate statistical analyses
• Data visualization
• Data management

The workshop sponsored by UConn Department of Statistics; School of Nursing & Center for Advancement in Managing Pain (CAMP).

Many thanks to the participants, professors, and sponsors involved in the event.