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Counts are summed per taxon at the chosen rank, with rows that have no name at
that rank pooled as `Unclassified`. This happens after the read-count bounds and
any `analysis.exclude_categories` entry that applies to `differential`. Each
taxon is fitted with its own negative-binomial GLM, `MASS::glm.nb(y ~ group +
offset(log(size factor)))`, on the raw integer read counts. There are no
pseudocounts. The group coefficient gets a Wald test, and Benjamini-Hochberg
adjustment runs over the taxa that produced a p-value. Size factors come from
the whole count matrix and are centred to a geometric mean of 1. The code is in
taxon is fitted by the configured method. The default, `nb_glm`, fits a
negative-binomial GLM, `MASS::glm.nb(y ~ group + offset(log(size factor)))`,
on the raw integer read counts; there are no pseudocounts, the group
coefficient gets a Wald test, and the effect is a log2 fold change. Size
factors come from the whole count matrix and are centred to a geometric mean
of 1. The alternative, `clr_welch`, runs Welch's t-test on centred log-ratios
over the taxa passing `min_prevalence`, after `zCompositions::cmultRepl`
replaces their zeros; its effect is a difference in CLR units, not a fold
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Describe the volcano-plot axis by method.

The plot uses the method-specific effect key and label. Update the README because it currently states that every plot uses log2 fold change.

Suggested documentation fix 
-The result is a volcano plot and a table. The plot draws log2 fold change
-against -log10 of the raw p-value, coloured by whether the adjusted p-value
-is below 0.05.
+The result is a volcano plot and a table. For `nb_glm`, the plot draws log2
+fold change. For `clr_welch`, it draws the CLR difference. In both cases,
+the effect is plotted against -log10 of the raw p-value and coloured by
+whether the adjusted p-value is below 0.05.
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Review comment at @README.md around lines 268 - 270:
Update the README volcano-plot description to state that `nb_glm` plots log2
fold change while `clr_welch` plots the CLR difference; retain the shared raw
p-value axis and adjusted-p-value colouring description.

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Complete the failure conditions for the new settings.

The refusal list should also include unsupported method values, replacement_delta values outside (0, 1), fewer than two samples in either group for clr_welch, and unavailable zCompositions. A 1+2 group split passes the documented three-sample minimum but then fails the clr_welch per-group check.

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+- `method` is unsupported or `replacement_delta` is outside `(0, 1)`;
+- `clr_welch` has fewer than 2 samples in either group;
+- the R package `zCompositions` cannot be loaded;
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Review comment at @README.md around lines 268 - 270:
Update the refusal list in the README to include unsupported method values,
replacement_delta values outside (0, 1), clr_welch groups with fewer than two
samples, and cases where zCompositions cannot be loaded. Clarify that the
documented three-sample minimum does not prevent a 1+2 split from failing the
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change. Under either method, Benjamini-Hochberg adjustment runs over the taxa
that produced a p-value. The code is in
`src/analysis/differential.jl`, and the route in `src/server/routes/analysis.jl`.

Settings live under `analysis.differential` (see
[Configuring analysis](#configuring-analysis-analysis-in-pipelineyml)):

- `method`: `nb_glm` (default) or `clr_welch`, as above.
- `offset`: `tss` (default) uses each sample's total reads. `rle` uses the
median of ratios over the taxa with reads in every sample.
median of ratios over the taxa with reads in every sample. Used by `nb_glm`
only; `clr_welch` ignores it, since log-ratios carry no library size.
- `min_prevalence`: a fraction from 0 to 1 (default 0). A taxon with reads in a
smaller fraction of the samples is not fitted.
smaller fraction of the samples is not fitted. For `clr_welch` it is applied
before zero replacement, so on a sparse table it also keeps imputed values
for rare taxa out of every sample.
- `replacement_delta`: `clr_welch` only; `cmultRepl`'s `frac`, between 0 and 1
(default 0.65). An imputed proportion above its taxon's smallest observed
proportion is lowered to this fraction of it. A replaced zero is not a
measurement.

The result is a volcano plot and a table. The plot draws log2 fold change
against -log10 of the raw p-value, coloured by whether the adjusted p-value is
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