# Dysbiosis score

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**Created:** [April 22, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/dysbiosis-score/1988 "2021-04-22T12:32:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![rpelicae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@rpelicae](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/rpelicae)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/dysbiosis-score/1988/1 "2021-04-22T12:32:34Z")

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Hi IBDMDB staff,

I have read Lloyd-Price et al., 2019 where you compute a dysbiosis score. This is based on shotgun metagenome data, not 16S data ?

In the MaAsLin2 tutorial, the HMP2 demo metadata contains the dysbiosis score. However I can not find it in the IBDMDB metadata file. Is there a specific reason for this ? Could it be possible for you to still add this metadata variable ? If not, how can we as IBDMD users compute the dysbiosis scores ourselves ?

Thank you,  
Rudy