Abstract

Embodiments of a method and/or system, such as for improving a microorganism-related characterization process, can include: preparing a set of control samples (e.g., from an individual specimen); determining one or more reference microorganism-related parameters (e.g., cutoff reference ranges of relative abundance for a set of microorganism taxa) based on one or more control samples of the set of control samples; and determining one or more variability parameters for the microorganism-related characterization based on the one or more reference microorganism-related parameters and one or more control sample characterizations for one or more control samples of the set of control samples.