Funding Information: We greatly thank Emmanuelle Le Chatelier and Pauline Barbet (Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, MetaGenoPolis, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France) for preparing the shotgun CRC benchmark dataset. We also thank Michelangelo Ceci (Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy) and Christian Jansen (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) for their interim leadership o...
Funding Information: The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study is based upon work from COST Action ML4Microbiome “Statistical and machine learning techniques in human microbiome studies” (CA18131), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), www.cost.eu . MB acknowledges support through the Metagenopo...