Is there a "general" accepeted dysbiosis index or score?

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

@jwdebelius your comments about how to really define dysbiosis reminds me of the plugin q2-karenina... I have not ever tried it, maybe this would be relevant to your study, @Bonic ?

Q2-Karenina: Community Tutorial

q2-karenina [Build Status] Approach q2-karenina in a QIIME2 plug-in for the karenina python package, which provides simulation and model-fitting tools for studying stochastic variability in microbial communities. The package is named for Anna Karenina Principle effects, in which certain diseases and environmental stressors can cause increased stochastic variability in animal microbiomes. A recent review of this phenomenon can be found in Zaneveld et al.,Nature Microbiology, 2017. This pattern i…