Motivation: 16S rDNA hypervariable tag sequencing has become the de facto method for accessing microbial diversity. Illumina paired-end sequencing, which produces two separate reads for each DNA fragm
Additional file 2 Tables S1 Summary results for 1,000 tests simulating different ploidies and different levels of coverage; Table S2 SRA information and values calculated for downsampled data of Bremi
OTU table. Final OTU table generated from the sequencing data, following all quality control steps. ‘Count’ gives the number of reads for a given OTU identified in a given sample. For skin samples, in
