A dataset inspired by data collected by the University of Washington (UW) Sexually Transmitted Infections Cooperative Research Center (STICRC). Absolute abundance, as measured by taxon-specific absolute primers, is available on 20 samples but only 7 taxa, and is provided in `example_qPCR_data`.
example_qPCR_data`example_qPCR_data`: a tibble with 20 rows and 8 columns. The first column is subject identifiers, and each subsequent column is the absolute abundance of a particular taxon in a given sample (row).
Inspired by data collected for Project 2 of the UW STICRC http://depts.washington.edu/cfas/research/sexually-transmitted-infections-cooperative-research-center/projects/establishing-microbial-and-biochemical-thresholds-for-development-and-persistence-of-bacterial-vaginosis/.