CUTIE (Correlations Under The InfluEnce) is a software tool to detect observations that significantly impact correlation analysis.
QIIME (Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology) is a software pipeline for the analysis of microbiome data.
PICRUSt (Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States) is an software tool to predict metagenomic content from 16S rRNA gene data.
BIOM (Biological Observation Matrix) is a standard to represent rich contingency tables, such as those generated from microbiome, metabolomic or gene expression studies.