Excited to share that my paper on Parallel Factor Analysis for longitudinal microbiome data has been published in mSystems! It details data rearrangement and processing to uncover microbial dynamics. Check it out: buff.ly/5jXEG52

My latest preprint is now available, featuring a collaboration with Danish colleagues. We used N-way Partial Least Squares models to study maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and infant growth, revealing complex interactions between mother milk composition and the infant gut microbiome. tinyurl.com/yc33snt6

I'm excited to share that my R package, parafac4microbiome, is updated to version 1.1.2 on CRAN: tinyurl.com/5p78hta3. This release features the full dataset from vanderPloeg2024 (tinyurl.com/y4j58kc8), an improved CORCONDIA, updated vignettes, and much more! #RStats

I presented my poster today at the Amsterdam Microbiome Expertise Center (AMEC) day at Artis zoo. I'm excited to share it here too. Feel free to message me with any questions! #AMEC2025 #Microbiome #DataAnalysis

Here's a thread 🧵 on using the parafac4microbiome package to track microbial changes with tensors over time. Check out my paper (https://buff.ly/4hDLpFw) and the parafac4microbiome R package (https://buff.ly/4hFVtOD) for more details. #RStats

My second paper on applying Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) to microbiome datasets is submitted and available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social : https://buff.ly/3PNae61. It features my R package, parafac4microbiome, downloadable from CRAN: https://buff.ly/4apC9CT.

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Thrilled to share my 1st paper in @natureportfolio.bsky.social npj Biofilms & Microbiomes! We show how Parallel Factor Analysis reveals microbial subcommunities & pathways in gingivitis. Thanks to my coauthors!

https://buff.ly/421t1C5

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I thoroughly enjoyed making an R package that create Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) models for longitudinal microbiome data analysis. Learn more about it on https://buff.ly/4a6z3mX or my preprint at https://buff.ly/3W2nQhn #Microbiome #Bioinformatics #DataScience #RStats

Happy to share that my personal website grvanderploeg.com is live. You can view my CV, publications and presentations on there if you're interested.

Happy to be on this platform!