Leo Lahti

seems good.

It is important, and we must learn while we go. I have not seen comprehensive R-based solutions to bring these levels together, and SE/MAE is a promising framework albeit not...

Whoa! Well this could be useful and valuable. It is also some work. Let's see how we get there.. PRs welcome! :-) Maybe one thing to still consider more carefully...

Related to #383

Also related to #306 #308

Does [mia::importHUMAnN()](https://microbiome.github.io/mia/reference/) solve this one already (can we close)?

Yes, two different issues: 1) importing functional predictions with importHUMAnN() into TreeSE or similar 2) linking taxonomic and functional data via MAE It seems that we have solved (1) satisfactorily...

For instance [Vandeputte et al. (2017)](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29143816/) Fig. 2 provides an early example of absolute vs. relative quantification.

I am not sure. Isn't including absolute abundance information rather a class-level definition issue rather than aggregation functionality? I was thinking of a dedicated slot that has information on the...

Ok sounds good.