About the authors

Niklaus J. Grünwald is a plant pathologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and a Professor in the Department of Botany and Pant Pathology and the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing at Oregon State University. He received his PhD from UC Davis and conducted postdoctoral research at Cornell University. His research focuses on understanding the evolutionary patterns and processes of emerging pathogens using population genetic and evolutionary approaches and development of computational tools for characterizing pathogens and communities. Members of his group have developed several widely used R packages including: poppr, vcfr, taxa, and metacoder.

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Zach S. L. Foster is a graduate student in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. He is the lead developer of the metacoder and taxa R packages. He is also a recipient of the ROpenSci fellowship.

Metacoder's documentation by The Grunwald lab and the USDA Horticultural Crops Research Unit is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/grunwaldlab/metacoder_documentation.