A phyloseq object containing merged information of abundance,
taxonomic assignment, sample data including the measured variables and categorical information
of the samples, and / or phylogenetic tree if available.
group
group (DESeq2). A character string specifying the name of a categorical variable containing grouping information.
ref
reference group
pvalue
pvalue threshold for significant results
padj
adjust p value threshold for significant results
log2FC
log2 Fold Change threshold
gm_mean
TRUE/FALSE calculate geometric means prior to estimate size factors
fitType
either "parametric", "local", or "mean" for the type of fitting of dispersions to the mean intensity.