# Reporting LEfSe results

**URL:** <https://forum.biobakery.org/t/reporting-lefse-results/5619>\
**Category:** LEfSe\
**Created:** [July 8, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/reporting-lefse-results/5619 "2023-07-08T04:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![malena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@malena](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/malena)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/reporting-lefse-results/5619/1 "2023-07-08T04:23:50Z")

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Hello,

I’m new to running the LEfSe analysis and I would greatly appreciate your help with this. How do you usually report your results? The Plot and the Cladogram, or do you ever create tables?

I was thinking of creating a table for an exploratory analysis where I ran LEfSe for multiple dichotomous variables. Is there a way to extract the LDA scores to create the table and report that instead of many plots and cladograms?

I tried opening up the .res file but I don’t have the software required to do so.

Thanks!  
Malena

PS: if you can think of a nice paper that reported on an exploratory analysis using LEfSe I would love to give it a read.

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**Author:** ![nvt-1009](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.biobakery.org/nvt-1009/32/2338_2.png) [@nvt-1009](https://forum.biobakery.org/u/nvt-1009)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.biobakery.org/t/reporting-lefse-results/5619/2 "2023-08-11T14:46:28Z")

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Hi, In the beginning, I had the same question. Would you rather read “Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation”? It is quite beneficial to your inquiry.