# MACARRoN

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## [About the MACARRoN category](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/about-the-macarron-category/1832)

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**Author:** [@sagunmaharjann](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/sagunmaharjann)\
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Name: MACARRoN Description: MACARRoN ( M etabolome A nalysis and C ombined A nnotation R anks for p R ediction of N ovel bioactives) is a tool for systematic analysis of microbiome-associated metabolomes for identific…

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## [MACARRoN Capacity to Perform Differential Abundance Testing](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/macarron-capacity-to-perform-differential-abundance-testing/8010)

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**Author:** [@njnealon](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/njnealon)\
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**Last updated:** [June 2, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/macarron-capacity-to-perform-differential-abundance-testing/8010 "2025-06-02T16:33:03Z")

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Hello! I am interested in integrating MACARRoN into my untargeted metabolomics workflow, especially for statistical analysis with repeated measures data. Right now, we are using baseR packages in R studio to perform re…

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## [Issue with generating the chemical taxonomy file in MACARRoN](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/issue-with-generating-the-chemical-taxonomy-file-in-macarron/4770)

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**Author:** [@bchalifour](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/bchalifour)\
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**Last updated:** [February 14, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/issue-with-generating-the-chemical-taxonomy-file-in-macarron/4770 "2023-02-14T19:18:00Z")

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I am struggling to generate the chemical taxonomy file using the “decorateID” function within MACARRoN, using both the RStudio and command line platforms. When I run the decorateID command, it runs for about 15 minutes, …