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 Canonically pronouced *nice*
 
 
- compositional statistics and visualization toolbox
-+gneiss is a compositional statistics and visualization toolbox.  
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-# Examples
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-IPython notebooks demonstrating some of the modules in gneiss can be found as follows
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-* [What are balances](https://github.com/biocore/gneiss/blob/master/ipynb/balance_trees.ipynb)
-* [Linear regression on balances in the 88 soils](https://github.com/biocore/gneiss/blob/master/ipynb/88soils.ipynb)
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+gneiss is a compositional statistics and visualization toolbox.  
  
 Note that gneiss is not compatible with python 2, and is compatible with Python 3.4 or later.
 gneiss is currently in alpha.  We are actively developing it, and __backward-incompatible interface changes may arise__.