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The CoNet app is a Cytoscape app that detects significant non-random patterns of co-occurrence (copresence and mutual exclusion) in incidence and abundance data. It has been designed with microbial count data from sequencing experiments in mind, but can be applied in general to infer relationships between objects observed in different samples, for example between genes present or absent across organisms.
Faust et al. (Thu,) studied this question.