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The datasets to reproduce the results presented here can be found at https://github.com/knightlab-analyses/multiomic-cooccurrences.
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Morton, J.T., McDonald, D., Aksenov, A.A. et al. Reply to: Examining microbe–metabolite correlations by linear methods. Nat Methods 18, 40–41 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-01007-0
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