16282 Community Relationships in the Dry Skin Microbiome

Introduction: There is now increasing evidence that non-dry and dry skin show characteristic differences in the diversity and resilience of the skin microbiome. Resilience analysis based on the application of network co-occurrence techniques to microbiome data has in recent years proved a powerful tool in discriminating phenotypic and product induced changes in the skin microbiome. However, until now methodologies for the statistical comparison of such networks were lacking. Here we present a novel approach for the statistical comparison of resilience networks in the context of the skin microbiome associated with cosmetic dry skin.