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UniFrac is a dissimilarity measure commonly used in metagenomic research, but it requires a phylogenetic tree. Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) is a popular algorithm for estimating two-dimensional (2D) coordinates for graphical representation, although alternative and higher-dimensional representations may reveal underlying community substructures invisible in 2D representations.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We adapt a new measure of dissimilarity, penalized Kendall\u2019s \u03c4-distance, which does not depend on a phylogenetic tree, and hence more readily applicable to a wider class of problems. Further, we propose to use metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) as an alternative to PCoA for graphical representation. We then devise a novel procedure for determining the number of clusters in conjunction with PAM (mPAM). We show superior performances with higher-dimensional representations. We further demonstrate the utility of mPAM for accurate clustering analysis, especially with higher-dimensional MDS models. Applications to two human microbiota datasets illustrate greater insights into the subcommunity structure with a higher-dimensional analysis.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: GrammR is implemented as an R-package available at http:\/\/www.stat.osu.edu\/\u223cstatgen\/SOFTWARE\/GrammR\/. It may also be downloaded from http:\/\/cran.rproject.org\/web\/packages\/GrammR\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: shili@stat.osu.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btv032","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,22]],"date-time":"2015-01-22T03:50:58Z","timestamp":1421898658000},"page":"1648-1654","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["GrammR: graphical representation and modeling of count data with application in metagenomics"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Deepak Nag","family":"Ayyala","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shili","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020115455456400_btv032-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"238","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ipl.2008.10.010","article-title":"Computing distances between partial rankings","volume":"109","author":"Bansal","year":"2009","journal-title":"Inf. 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