Thanks, Sander! 😄

Thanks! The predicted load can be used to make the profile less compositional by multiplying it with relative abundances. However, in the disease-related analysis, the impact of such normalization seemed to be small, except for extreme diseases such as IBD.

Huge thanks to all collaborators and consortium members for their substantial contributions to the study! @borklab.bsky.social , @GALAXY, @MicrobLiver,

We thank all the collaborators and consortium members who were involved in the study!:
#GALAXY, #MicrobLiver, @borklab.bsky.social

Our prediction tool, named Microbial Load Predictor (MLP), is freely available from here. microbiome-tools.embl.de/mlp/