Package BIOM.utils defines utilities in the R language for conveniently handling the BIOM (Biological Observation Matrix) format.

See: http://biom-format.org

Objects of class "biom" may be constructed with:
biom.list()
biom.matrix()
biom.character()

And methods are provided for:
as.matrix()
as.character()
as.list()
dim()
dimnames()
metadata()
head()
tail()
print()
summary()
str()