Project FOMC4412 services include NGS sequencing of the V1V3 region of the 16S rRNA amplicons from the samples. First and foremost, please
download this report, as well as the sequence raw data from the download links provided below.
These links will expire after 60 days. We cannot guarantee the availability of your data after 60 days.
Full Bioinformatics analysis service was requested. We provide many analyses, starting from the raw sequence quality and noise filtering, pair reads merging, as well as chimera filtering for the sequences, using the
DADA2 denosing algorithm and pipeline.
We also provide many downstream analyses such as taxonomy assignment, alpha and beta diversity analyses, and differential abundance analysis.
For taxonomy assignment, most informative would be the taxonomy barplots. We provide an interactive barplots to show the relative abundance of microbes at different taxonomy levels (from Phylum to species) that you can choose.
If you specify which groups of samples you want to compare for differential abundance, we provide both ANCOM and LEfSe differential abundance analysis.
The samples were processed and analyzed with the ZymoBIOMICS® Service: Targeted
Metagenomic Sequencing (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA).
DNA Extraction: If DNA extraction was performed, one of three different DNA
extraction kits was used depending on the sample type and sample volume and were
used according to the manufacturer’s instructions, unless otherwise stated. The kit used
in this project is marked below:
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ZymoBIOMICS® DNA Miniprep Kit (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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ZymoBIOMICS® DNA Microprep Kit (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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ZymoBIOMICS®-96 MagBead DNA Kit (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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N/A (DNA Extraction Not Performed)
Elution Volume: 50µL
Additional Notes: NA
Targeted Library Preparation: The DNA samples were prepared for targeted
sequencing with the Quick-16S™ NGS Library Prep Kit (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA).
These primers were custom designed by Zymo Research to provide the best coverage
of the 16S gene while maintaining high sensitivity. The primer sets used in this project
are marked below:
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Quick-16S™ Primer Set V1-V2 (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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Quick-16S™ Primer Set V1-V3 (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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Quick-16S™ Primer Set V3-V4 (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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Quick-16S™ Primer Set V4 (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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Quick-16S™ Primer Set V6-V8 (Zymo Research, Irvine, CA)
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Other: NA
Additional Notes: NA
The sequencing library was prepared using an innovative library preparation process in
which PCR reactions were performed in real-time PCR machines to control cycles and
therefore limit PCR chimera formation. The final PCR products were quantified with
qPCR fluorescence readings and pooled together based on equal molarity. The final
pooled library was cleaned up with the Select-a-Size DNA Clean & Concentrator™
(Zymo Research, Irvine, CA), then quantified with TapeStation® (Agilent Technologies,
Santa Clara, CA) and Qubit® (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, WA).
Control Samples: The ZymoBIOMICS® Microbial Community Standard (Zymo
Research, Irvine, CA) was used as a positive control for each DNA extraction, if
performed. The ZymoBIOMICS® Microbial Community DNA Standard (Zymo Research,
Irvine, CA) was used as a positive control for each targeted library preparation.
Negative controls (i.e. blank extraction control, blank library preparation control) were
included to assess the level of bioburden carried by the wet-lab process.
Sequencing: The final library was sequenced on Illumina® MiSeq™ with a V3 reagent kit
(600 cycles). The sequencing was performed with 10% PhiX spike-in.
Absolute Abundance Quantification*: A quantitative real-time PCR was set up with a
standard curve. The standard curve was made with plasmid DNA containing one copy
of the 16S gene and one copy of the fungal ITS2 region prepared in 10-fold serial
dilutions. The primers used were the same as those used in Targeted Library
Preparation. The equation generated by the plasmid DNA standard curve was used to
calculate the number of gene copies in the reaction for each sample. The PCR input
volume (2 µl) was used to calculate the number of gene copies per microliter in each
DNA sample.
The number of genome copies per microliter DNA sample was calculated by dividing
the gene copy number by an assumed number of gene copies per genome. The value
used for 16S copies per genome is 4. The value used for ITS copies per genome is 200.
The amount of DNA per microliter DNA sample was calculated using an assumed
genome size of 4.64 x 106 bp, the genome size of Escherichia coli, for 16S samples, or
an assumed genome size of 1.20 x 107 bp, the genome size of Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, for ITS samples. This calculation is shown below:
Calculated Total DNA = Calculated Total Genome Copies × Assumed Genome Size (4.64 × 106 bp) ×
Average Molecular Weight of a DNA bp (660 g/mole/bp) ÷ Avogadro’s Number (6.022 x 1023/mole)
* Absolute Abundance Quantification is only available for 16S and ITS analyses.
The absolute abundance standard curve data can be viewed in Excel here:
The absolute abundance standard curve is shown below:
The complete report of your project, including all links in this report, can be downloaded by clicking the link provided below. The downloaded file is a compressed ZIP file and once unzipped, open the file “REPORT.html” (may only shown as "REPORT" in your computer) by double clicking it. Your default web browser will open it and you will see the exact content of this report.
Please download and save the file to your computer storage device. The download link will expire after 60 days upon your receiving of this report.
Complete report download link:
To view the report, please follow the following steps:
1.
Download the .zip file from the report link above.
2.
Extract all the contents of the downloaded .zip file to your desktop.
3.
Open the extracted folder and find the "REPORT.html" (may shown as only "REPORT").
4.
Open (double-clicking) the REPORT.html file. Your default browser will open the top age of the complete report. Within the
report, there are links to view all the analyses performed for the project.
The raw NGS sequence data is available for download with the link provided below. The data is a compressed ZIP file and can be unzipped to individual sequence files.
Since this is a pair-end sequencing, each of your samples is represented by two sequence files, one for READ 1,
with the file extension “*_R1.fastq.gz”, another READ 2, with the file extension “*_R1.fastq.gz”.
The files are in FASTQ format and are compressed. FASTQ format is a text-based data format for storing both a biological sequence
and its corresponding quality scores. Most sequence analysis software will be able to open them.
The Sample IDs associated with the R1 and R2 fastq files are listed in the table below:
Sample ID
Read 1 File Name
R1 Read Count
S100
zr4412_100V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26842
S101
zr4412_101V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29483
S102
zr4412_102V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28194
S103
zr4412_103V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27054
S104
zr4412_104V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26140
S105
zr4412_105V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28709
S106
zr4412_106V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23754
S107
zr4412_107V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27310
S108
zr4412_108V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25061
S109
zr4412_109V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
34604
S010
zr4412_10V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29078
S110
zr4412_110V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
32198
S111
zr4412_111V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26144
S112
zr4412_112V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30037
S113
zr4412_113V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29398
S114
zr4412_114V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26979
S115
zr4412_115V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30420
S116
zr4412_116V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30388
S117
zr4412_117V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26214
S118
zr4412_118V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
32167
S119
zr4412_119V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26115
S011
zr4412_11V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28111
S120
zr4412_120V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26568
S121
zr4412_121V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25786
S122
zr4412_122V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23811
S123
zr4412_123V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27261
S124
zr4412_124V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25377
S125
zr4412_125V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28826
S126
zr4412_126V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27862
S127
zr4412_127V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28407
S128
zr4412_128V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27483
S129
zr4412_129V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26873
S012
zr4412_12V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30830
S130
zr4412_130V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27705
S131
zr4412_131V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28956
S132
zr4412_132V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25523
S133
zr4412_133V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29732
S134
zr4412_134V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
35212
S135
zr4412_135V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
32049
S013
zr4412_13V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30871
S014
zr4412_14V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29116
S015
zr4412_15V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
31136
S016
zr4412_16V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29982
S017
zr4412_17V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29391
S018
zr4412_18V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25529
S019
zr4412_19V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27452
S001
zr4412_1V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29974
S020
zr4412_20V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29909
S021
zr4412_21V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28227
S022
zr4412_22V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
31486
S023
zr4412_23V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26881
S024
zr4412_24V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30734
S025
zr4412_25V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25056
S026
zr4412_26V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25278
S027
zr4412_27V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23582
S028
zr4412_28V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23448
S029
zr4412_29V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23446
S002
zr4412_2V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26465
S030
zr4412_30V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29775
S031
zr4412_31V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28196
S032
zr4412_32V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30658
S033
zr4412_33V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26037
S034
zr4412_34V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27459
S035
zr4412_35V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24740
S036
zr4412_36V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25444
S037
zr4412_37V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23224
S038
zr4412_38V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27184
S039
zr4412_39V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27243
S003
zr4412_3V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26289
S040
zr4412_40V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
31660
S041
zr4412_41V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
33645
S042
zr4412_42V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26575
S043
zr4412_43V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29466
S044
zr4412_44V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
32331
S045
zr4412_45V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28677
S046
zr4412_46V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25888
S047
zr4412_47V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25270
S048
zr4412_48V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23803
S049
zr4412_49V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
19091
S004
zr4412_4V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27910
S050
zr4412_50V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
20628
S051
zr4412_51V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
18379
S052
zr4412_52V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
20769
S053
zr4412_53V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
18923
S054
zr4412_54V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
22164
S055
zr4412_55V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24930
S056
zr4412_56V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24582
S057
zr4412_57V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26510
S058
zr4412_58V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24391
S059
zr4412_59V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24709
S005
zr4412_5V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25909
S060
zr4412_60V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26388
S061
zr4412_61V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23831
S062
zr4412_62V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25763
S063
zr4412_63V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25784
S064
zr4412_64V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26671
S065
zr4412_65V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24656
S066
zr4412_66V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23193
S067
zr4412_67V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24907
S068
zr4412_68V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24518
S069
zr4412_69V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23184
S006
zr4412_6V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29505
S070
zr4412_70V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29949
S071
zr4412_71V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
31091
S072
zr4412_72V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27277
S073
zr4412_73V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24226
S074
zr4412_74V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
21849
S075
zr4412_75V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
20856
S076
zr4412_76V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24866
S077
zr4412_77V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
23232
S078
zr4412_78V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26035
S079
zr4412_79V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29870
S007
zr4412_7V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29635
S080
zr4412_80V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26076
S081
zr4412_81V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26857
S082
zr4412_82V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30542
S083
zr4412_83V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
25690
S084
zr4412_84V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
29138
S085
zr4412_85V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
26081
S086
zr4412_86V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30348
S087
zr4412_87V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
32009
S088
zr4412_88V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
32158
S089
zr4412_89V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28304
S008
zr4412_8V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
31931
S090
zr4412_90V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
31099
S091
zr4412_91V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24270
S092
zr4412_92V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
32714
S093
zr4412_93V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
21228
S094
zr4412_94V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
31706
S095
zr4412_95V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27831
S096
zr4412_96V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
28506
S097
zr4412_97V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
27420
S098
zr4412_98V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24439
S099
zr4412_99V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
24412
S009
zr4412_9V1V3_R1.fastq.gz
30161
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DADA2 is a software package that models and corrects Illumina-sequenced amplicon errors.
DADA2 infers sample sequences exactly, without coarse-graining into OTUs,
and resolves differences of as little as one nucleotide. DADA2 identified more real variants
and output fewer spurious sequences than other methods.
DADA2’s advantage is that it uses more of the data. The DADA2 error model incorporates quality information,
which is ignored by all other methods after filtering. The DADA2 error model incorporates quantitative abundances,
whereas most other methods use abundance ranks if they use abundance at all.
The DADA2 error model identifies the differences between sequences, eg. A->C,
whereas other methods merely count the mismatches. DADA2 can parameterize its error model from the data itself,
rather than relying on previous datasets that may or may not reflect the PCR and sequencing protocols used in your study.
DADA2 pipeline includes several tools for read quality control, including quality filtering, trimming, denoising, pair merging and chimera filtering. Below are the major processing steps of DADA2:
Step 1. Read trimming based on sequence quality
The quality of NGS Illumina sequences often decreases toward the end of the reads.
DADA2 allows to trim off the poor quality read ends in order to improve the error
model building and pair mergicing performance.
Step 2. Learn the Error Rates
The DADA2 algorithm makes use of a parametric error model (err) and every
amplicon dataset has a different set of error rates. The learnErrors method
learns this error model from the data, by alternating estimation of the error
rates and inference of sample composition until they converge on a jointly
consistent solution. As in many machine-learning problems, the algorithm must
begin with an initial guess, for which the maximum possible error rates in
this data are used (the error rates if only the most abundant sequence is
correct and all the rest are errors).
Step 3. Infer amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) based on the error model built in previous step. This step is also called sequence "denoising".
The outcome of this step is a list of ASVs that are the equivalent of oligonucleotides.
Step 4. Merge paired reads. If the sequencing products are read pairs, DADA2 will merge the R1 and R2 ASVs into single sequences.
Merging is performed by aligning the denoised forward reads with the reverse-complement of the corresponding
denoised reverse reads, and then constructing the merged “contig” sequences.
By default, merged sequences are only output if the forward and reverse reads overlap by
at least 12 bases, and are identical to each other in the overlap region (but these conditions can be changed via function arguments).
Step 5. Remove chimera.
The core dada method corrects substitution and indel errors, but chimeras remain. Fortunately, the accuracy of sequence variants
after denoising makes identifying chimeric ASVs simpler than when dealing with fuzzy OTUs.
Chimeric sequences are identified if they can be exactly reconstructed by
combining a left-segment and a right-segment from two more abundant “parent” sequences. The frequency of chimeric sequences varies substantially
from dataset to dataset, and depends on on factors including experimental procedures and sample complexity.
Results
1. Read Quality Plots NGS sequence analaysis starts with visualizing the quality of the sequencing. Below are the quality plots of the first
sample for the R1 and R2 reads separately. In gray-scale is a heat map of the frequency of each quality score at each base position. The mean
quality score at each position is shown by the green line, and the quartiles of the quality score distribution by the orange lines.
The forward reads are usually of better quality. It is a common practice to trim the last few nucleotides to avoid less well-controlled errors
that can arise there. The trimming affects the downstream steps including error model building, merging and chimera calling. FOMC uses an empirical
approach to test many combinations of different trim length in order to achieve best final amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), see the next
section “Optimal trim length for ASVs”.
Below is the link to a PDF file for viewing the quality plots for all samples:
2. Optimal trim length for ASVs The final number of merged and chimera-filtered ASVs depends on the quality filtering (hence trimming) in the very beginning of the DADA2 pipeline.
In order to achieve highest number of ASVs, an empirical approach was used -
Create a random subset of each sample consisting of 5,000 R1 and 5,000 R2 (to reduce computation time)
Trim 10 bases at a time from the ends of both R1 and R2 up to 50 bases
For each combination of trimmed length (e.g., 300x300, 300x290, 290x290 etc), the trimmed reads are
subject to the entire DADA2 pipeline for chimera-filtered merged ASVs
The combination with highest percentage of the input reads becoming final ASVs is selected for the complete set of data
Below is the result of such operation, showing ASV percentages of total reads for all trimming combinations (1st Column = R1 lengths in bases; 1st Row = R2 lengths in bases):
R1/R2
281
271
261
251
241
231
321
46.91%
51.67%
52.36%
53.32%
54.36%
47.28%
311
47.33%
52.85%
53.24%
54.28%
48.05%
39.47%
301
47.65%
53.17%
53.59%
47.33%
39.45%
19.07%
291
47.59%
53.48%
46.76%
38.21%
18.95%
14.34%
281
48.40%
46.60%
38.45%
18.68%
14.27%
7.11%
271
42.35%
38.77%
18.61%
13.84%
6.93%
4.05%
Based on the above result, the trim length combination of R1 = 321 bases and R2 = 241 bases (highlighted red above), was chosen for generating final ASVs for all sequences.
This combination generated highest number of merged non-chimeric ASVs and was used for downstream analyses, if requested.
3. Error plots from learning the error rates
After DADA2 building the error model for the set of data, it is always worthwhile, as a sanity check if nothing else, to visualize the estimated error rates.
The error rates for each possible transition (A→C, A→G, …) are shown below. Points are the observed error rates for each consensus quality score.
The black line shows the estimated error rates after convergence of the machine-learning algorithm.
The red line shows the error rates expected under the nominal definition of the Q-score.
The ideal result would be the estimated error rates (black line) are a good fit to the observed rates (points), and the error rates drop
with increased quality as expected.
Forward Read R1 Error Plot
Reverse Read R2 Error Plot
The PDF version of these plots are available here:
4. DADA2 Result Summary The table below shows the summary of the DADA2 analysis,
tracking paired read counts of each samples for all the steps during DADA2 denoising process -
including end-trimming (filtered), denoising (denoisedF, denoisedF), pair merging (merged) and chimera removal (nonchim).
Sample ID
F4412.S001
F4412.S002
F4412.S003
F4412.S004
F4412.S005
F4412.S006
F4412.S007
F4412.S008
F4412.S009
F4412.S010
F4412.S011
F4412.S012
F4412.S013
F4412.S014
F4412.S015
F4412.S016
F4412.S017
F4412.S018
F4412.S019
F4412.S020
F4412.S021
F4412.S022
F4412.S023
F4412.S024
F4412.S025
F4412.S026
F4412.S027
F4412.S028
F4412.S029
F4412.S030
F4412.S031
F4412.S032
F4412.S033
F4412.S034
F4412.S035
F4412.S036
F4412.S037
F4412.S038
F4412.S039
F4412.S040
F4412.S041
F4412.S042
F4412.S043
F4412.S044
F4412.S045
F4412.S046
F4412.S047
F4412.S048
F4412.S049
F4412.S050
F4412.S051
F4412.S052
F4412.S053
F4412.S054
F4412.S055
F4412.S056
F4412.S057
F4412.S058
F4412.S059
F4412.S060
F4412.S061
F4412.S062
F4412.S063
F4412.S064
F4412.S065
F4412.S066
F4412.S067
F4412.S068
F4412.S069
F4412.S070
F4412.S071
F4412.S072
F4412.S073
F4412.S074
F4412.S075
F4412.S076
F4412.S077
F4412.S078
F4412.S079
F4412.S080
F4412.S081
F4412.S082
F4412.S083
F4412.S084
F4412.S085
F4412.S086
F4412.S087
F4412.S088
F4412.S089
F4412.S090
F4412.S091
F4412.S092
F4412.S093
F4412.S094
F4412.S095
F4412.S096
F4412.S097
F4412.S098
F4412.S099
F4412.S100
F4412.S101
F4412.S102
F4412.S103
F4412.S104
F4412.S105
F4412.S106
F4412.S107
F4412.S108
F4412.S109
F4412.S110
F4412.S111
F4412.S112
F4412.S113
F4412.S114
F4412.S115
F4412.S116
F4412.S117
F4412.S118
F4412.S119
F4412.S120
F4412.S121
F4412.S122
F4412.S123
F4412.S124
F4412.S125
F4412.S126
F4412.S127
F4412.S128
F4412.S129
F4412.S130
F4412.S131
F4412.S132
F4412.S133
F4412.S134
F4412.S135
Row Sum
Percentage
input
29,974
26,465
26,289
27,910
25,909
29,505
29,635
31,931
30,161
29,078
28,111
30,830
30,871
29,116
31,136
29,982
29,391
25,529
27,452
29,909
28,227
31,486
26,881
30,734
25,056
25,278
23,582
23,448
23,446
29,775
28,196
30,658
26,037
27,459
24,740
25,444
23,224
27,184
27,243
31,660
33,645
26,575
29,466
32,331
28,677
25,888
25,270
23,803
19,091
20,628
18,379
20,769
18,923
22,164
24,930
24,582
26,510
24,391
24,709
26,388
23,831
25,763
25,784
26,671
24,656
23,193
24,907
24,518
23,184
29,949
31,091
27,277
24,226
21,849
20,856
24,866
23,232
26,035
29,870
26,076
26,857
30,542
25,690
29,138
26,081
30,348
32,009
32,158
28,304
31,099
24,270
32,714
21,228
31,706
27,831
28,506
27,420
24,439
24,412
26,842
29,483
28,194
27,054
26,140
28,709
23,754
27,310
25,061
34,604
32,198
26,144
30,037
29,398
26,979
30,420
30,388
26,214
32,167
26,115
26,568
25,786
23,811
27,261
25,377
28,826
27,862
28,407
27,483
26,873
27,705
28,956
25,523
29,732
35,212
32,049
3,673,289
100.00%
filtered
24,721
22,100
21,373
22,209
21,119
24,495
24,463
26,713
24,259
24,236
22,795
25,774
24,774
24,220
26,002
25,115
23,876
21,035
22,136
24,705
22,685
26,173
22,368
25,375
20,122
21,011
18,943
19,497
18,567
24,738
23,615
25,220
20,705
22,498
19,602
20,610
18,490
22,344
22,312
25,804
27,272
21,884
23,958
26,839
23,264
21,680
21,149
19,910
15,952
17,285
15,386
17,562
15,855
18,601
20,862
20,565
21,582
19,852
19,936
21,765
19,567
21,004
21,233
21,677
20,071
19,051
20,220
20,304
18,774
24,879
25,825
22,444
19,656
18,031
16,604
20,573
17,734
21,590
24,778
21,670
22,009
25,318
20,721
24,375
21,274
25,308
26,535
26,699
22,760
25,355
19,268
27,453
15,189
26,525
21,054
23,684
22,639
20,113
20,225
22,328
24,467
23,731
21,488
21,773
23,830
19,773
22,781
20,764
28,807
26,270
20,602
25,111
24,473
22,505
25,207
25,150
16,339
26,847
20,883
22,141
21,487
19,570
22,467
20,925
23,868
23,254
22,227
22,864
22,228
23,012
24,021
21,164
24,438
29,473
24,777
3,011,192
81.98%
denoisedF
23,809
21,322
20,521
21,139
20,084
23,491
23,484
25,685
23,197
23,145
21,722
24,651
23,709
23,152
24,982
23,931
22,998
20,160
21,449
23,975
21,839
25,402
21,419
24,702
19,507
20,327
18,275
18,907
17,969
23,895
22,427
23,953
19,806
21,273
18,432
19,451
17,474
21,115
21,112
24,537
26,158
20,769
22,786
25,470
22,186
20,347
19,954
18,715
15,154
16,568
14,604
16,864
15,119
17,829
20,106
19,751
20,711
19,250
19,054
20,765
18,755
20,299
20,435
20,762
19,302
18,218
19,376
19,561
18,039
23,965
24,815
21,604
18,813
17,240
15,853
19,625
16,834
20,576
23,708
20,721
20,981
24,191
19,677
23,231
20,260
24,059
25,401
25,587
21,559
24,147
18,633
26,576
14,568
25,669
20,156
22,808
21,845
19,455
19,586
21,543
23,637
22,731
20,767
20,992
23,113
19,175
22,024
20,065
28,103
25,592
20,004
24,426
23,773
21,754
24,502
24,517
15,791
26,155
20,121
21,450
20,650
18,650
21,634
20,287
22,986
22,497
21,430
22,068
21,489
22,322
23,257
20,385
23,494
28,509
23,947
2,891,318
78.71%
denoisedR
24,314
21,619
20,938
21,564
20,487
23,924
23,794
25,956
23,676
23,577
22,134
25,082
24,218
23,574
25,303
24,327
23,310
20,486
21,584
24,016
22,238
25,653
21,906
24,804
19,695
20,434
18,542
19,117
18,110
24,245
22,766
24,279
19,707
21,790
18,827
19,956
17,798
21,409
21,523
24,844
26,637
21,054
23,200
25,889
22,425
20,856
20,273
19,015
15,464
16,669
14,900
17,007
15,370
17,977
20,299
19,900
20,805
19,319
19,399
20,976
19,033
20,327
20,702
21,139
19,556
18,386
19,630
19,731
18,224
24,336
25,250
21,946
19,029
17,530
16,159
19,922
17,187
20,826
24,184
21,153
21,523
24,705
20,153
23,775
20,730
24,752
25,613
25,978
22,163
24,702
18,826
26,843
14,776
25,932
20,471
23,310
22,076
19,701
19,838
21,970
23,997
23,303
20,978
21,251
23,403
19,265
22,214
20,389
28,323
25,809
20,213
24,420
24,090
21,979
24,810
24,830
16,041
26,328
20,368
21,745
20,725
19,076
21,682
20,378
23,330
22,672
21,739
22,352
21,788
22,566
23,360
20,760
23,914
28,869
24,071
2,932,085
79.82%
merged
21,218
18,759
18,151
18,938
17,841
21,032
21,208
23,168
21,110
20,867
19,778
22,255
21,443
20,871
22,466
18,533
20,076
16,979
18,658
20,883
18,504
21,827
18,466
21,006
16,797
17,408
16,017
16,479
15,068
20,862
19,880
21,365
16,917
18,411
16,048
17,359
15,211
18,542
18,838
22,146
23,142
18,062
20,546
22,418
19,263
16,623
16,156
15,079
12,846
13,885
12,469
13,982
12,311
14,915
17,088
16,809
17,083
16,599
15,842
17,311
15,829
17,175
17,652
17,031
16,037
15,090
15,711
16,214
14,432
20,780
21,665
18,145
14,865
14,051
13,058
16,294
13,910
16,939
21,243
18,197
18,703
21,149
17,304
21,166
17,640
21,747
22,454
22,550
19,255
21,318
16,211
23,995
12,635
22,476
17,347
20,317
19,296
17,187
17,193
19,294
21,000
20,302
18,299
18,442
20,496
16,722
19,180
17,388
25,067
22,972
17,752
21,676
21,614
19,274
22,133
22,330
13,707
23,467
17,833
19,142
18,009
16,271
18,662
17,454
20,509
19,409
19,085
19,886
19,179
19,808
20,325
18,092
21,137
25,478
21,120
2,520,589
68.62%
nonchim
11,717
10,502
10,240
12,973
12,538
14,872
14,968
15,782
15,290
15,149
14,013
15,826
15,027
15,041
15,593
11,047
14,152
10,774
13,435
14,678
13,323
15,185
12,697
14,499
12,138
11,833
11,478
11,798
10,790
14,419
12,400
13,163
10,398
11,074
10,021
10,465
8,963
10,850
11,372
13,716
13,404
10,657
12,603
13,072
11,593
8,977
8,649
8,500
7,763
7,896
8,257
9,160
8,030
9,996
10,964
11,278
11,247
9,943
10,193
11,002
9,515
10,100
10,514
11,136
10,634
9,871
10,422
10,259
9,852
13,521
14,258
12,130
9,257
9,487
8,789
10,012
8,531
9,862
12,997
10,808
11,432
12,383
10,911
12,838
10,882
12,677
13,121
13,693
9,819
11,946
10,818
16,782
8,938
15,836
12,139
13,714
13,863
12,569
12,581
13,789
14,472
14,313
13,325
12,561
14,566
12,363
14,042
12,835
17,832
16,623
13,189
15,688
15,436
14,152
16,051
15,974
10,650
17,274
12,718
13,748
12,047
10,151
11,966
11,254
13,303
12,599
12,886
13,424
12,722
12,684
12,657
11,870
14,209
16,113
14,249
1,660,015
45.19%
This table can be downloaded as an Excel table below:
5. DADA2 Amplicon Sequence Variants (ASVs). A total of 15733 unique merged and chimera-free ASV sequences were identified, and their corresponding
read counts for each sample are available in the "ASV Read Count Table" with rows for the ASV sequences and columns for sample. This read count table can be used for
microbial profile comparison among different samples and the sequences provided in the table can be used to taxonomy assignment.
The species-level, open-reference 16S rRNA NGS reads taxonomy assignment pipeline
Version 20210310
1. Raw sequences reads in FASTA format were BLASTN-searched against a combined set of 16S rRNA reference sequences.
It consists of MOMD (version 0.1), the HOMD (version 15.2 http://www.homd.org/index.php?name=seqDownload&file&type=R ),
HOMD 16S rRNA RefSeq Extended Version 1.1 (EXT), GreenGene Gold (GG)
(http://greengenes.lbl.gov/Download/Sequence_Data/Fasta_data_files/gold_strains_gg16S_aligned.fasta.gz) ,
and the NCBI 16S rRNA reference sequence set (https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/db/16S_ribosomal_RNA.tar.gz).
These sequences were screened and combined to remove short sequences (<1000nt), chimera, duplicated and sub-sequences,
as well as sequences with poor taxonomy annotation (e.g., without species information).
This process resulted in 1,015 from HOMD V15.22, 495 from EXT, 3,940 from GG and 18,044 from NCBI, a total of 25,120 sequences.
Altogether these sequence represent a total of 15,601 oral and non-oral microbial species.
The NCBI BLASTN version 2.7.1+ (Zhang et al, 2000) was used with the default parameters.
Reads with ≥ 98% sequence identity to the matched reference and ≥ 90% alignment length
(i.e., ≥ 90% of the read length that was aligned to the reference and was used to calculate
the sequence percent identity) were classified based on the taxonomy of the reference sequence
with highest sequence identity. If a read matched with reference sequences representing
more than one species with equal percent identity and alignment length, it was subject
to chimera checking with USEARCH program version v8.1.1861 (Edgar 2010). Non-chimeric reads with multi-species
best hits were considered valid and were assigned with a unique species
notation (e.g., spp) denoting unresolvable multiple species.
2. Unassigned reads (i.e., reads with < 98% identity or < 90% alignment length) were pooled together and reads < 200 bases were
removed. The remaining reads were subject to the de novo
operational taxonomy unit (OTU) calling and chimera checking using the USEARCH program version v8.1.1861 (Edgar 2010).
The de novo OTU calling and chimera checking was done using 98% as the sequence identity cutoff, i.e., the species-level OTU.
The output of this step produced species-level de novo clustered OTUs with 98% identity.
Representative reads from each of the OTUs/species were then BLASTN-searched
against the same reference sequence set again to determine the closest species for
these potential novel species. These potential novel species were pooled together with the reads that were signed to specie-level in
the previous step, for down-stream analyses.
Reference:
Edgar RC. Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST.
Bioinformatics. 2010 Oct 1;26(19):2460-1. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq461. Epub 2010 Aug 12. PubMed PMID: 20709691.
3. Designations used in the taxonomy:
1) Taxonomy levels are indicated by these prefixes:
k__: domain/kingdom
p__: phylum
c__: class
o__: order
f__: family
g__: genus
s__: species
Example:
k__Bacteria;p__Firmicutes;c__Clostridia;o__Clostridiales;f__Lachnospiraceae;g__Blautia;s__faecis
2) Unique level identified – known species:
k__Bacteria;p__Firmicutes;c__Clostridia;o__Clostridiales;f__Lachnospiraceae;g__Roseburia;s__hominis
The above example shows some reads match to a single species (all levels are unique)
3) Non-unique level identified – known species:
k__Bacteria;p__Firmicutes;c__Clostridia;o__Clostridiales;f__Lachnospiraceae;g__Roseburia;s__multispecies_spp123_3
The above example “s__multispecies_spp123_3” indicates certain reads equally match to 3 species of the
genus Roseburia; the “spp123” is a temporally assigned species ID.
k__Bacteria;p__Firmicutes;c__Clostridia;o__Clostridiales;f__Lachnospiraceae;g__multigenus;s__multispecies_spp234_5
The above example indicates certain reads match equally to 5 different species, which belong to multiple genera.;
the “spp234” is a temporally assigned species ID.
4) Unique level identified – unknown species, potential novel species:
k__Bacteria;p__Firmicutes;c__Clostridia;o__Clostridiales;f__Lachnospiraceae;g__Roseburia;s__ hominis_nov_97%
The above example indicates that some reads have no match to any of the reference sequences with
sequence identity ≥ 98% and percent coverage (alignment length) ≥ 98% as well. However this groups
of reads (actually the representative read from a de novo OTU) has 96% percent identity to
Roseburia hominis, thus this is a potential novel species, closest to Roseburia hominis.
(But they are not the same species).
5) Multiple level identified – unknown species, potential novel species:
k__Bacteria;p__Firmicutes;c__Clostridia;o__Clostridiales;f__Lachnospiraceae;g__Roseburia;s__ multispecies_sppn123_3_nov_96%
The above example indicates that some reads have no match to any of the reference sequences
with sequence identity ≥ 98% and percent coverage (alignment length) ≥ 98% as well.
However this groups of reads (actually the representative read from a de novo OTU)
has 96% percent identity equally to 3 species in Roseburia. Thus this is no single
closest species, instead this group of reads match equally to multiple species at 96%.
Since they have passed chimera check so they represent a novel species. “sppn123” is a
temporary ID for this potential novel species.
4. The taxonomy assignment algorithm is illustrated in this flow char below:
Read Taxonomy Assignment - Result Summary
Code
Category
Read Count (MC=1)*
Read Count (MC=100)*
A
Total reads
1,660,015
1,660,015
B
Total assigned reads
1,657,713
1,657,713
C
Assigned reads in species with read count < MC
0
5,910
D
Assigned reads in samples with read count < 500
0
0
E
Total samples
135
135
F
Samples with reads >= 500
135
135
G
Samples with reads < 500
0
0
H
Total assigned reads used for analysis (B-C-D)
1,657,713
1,651,803
I
Reads assigned to single species
1,599,287
1,596,570
J
Reads assigned to multiple species
42,880
42,332
K
Reads assigned to novel species
15,546
12,901
L
Total number of species
568
321
M
Number of single species
351
275
N
Number of multi-species
26
15
O
Number of novel species
191
31
P
Total unassigned reads
2,302
2,302
Q
Chimeric reads
57
57
R
Reads without BLASTN hits
18
18
S
Others: short, low quality, singletons, etc.
2,227
2,227
A=B+P=C+D+H+Q+R+S
E=F+G
B=C+D+H
H=I+J+K
L=M+N+O
P=Q+R+S
* MC = Minimal Count per species, species with total read count < MC were removed.
* The assignment result from MC=100 was used in the downstream analyses.
Read Taxonomy Assignment - Sample Meta Information
#SampleID
Group
F4412.S001
Random1
F4412.S002
Random1
F4412.S003
Random1
F4412.S004
Random1
F4412.S005
Random1
F4412.S006
Random1
F4412.S007
Random1
F4412.S008
Random1
F4412.S009
Random1
F4412.S010
Random1
F4412.S011
Random1
F4412.S012
Random1
F4412.S013
Random1
F4412.S014
Random1
F4412.S015
Random1
F4412.S016
Random1
F4412.S017
Random1
F4412.S018
Random1
F4412.S019
Random1
F4412.S020
Random1
F4412.S021
Random1
F4412.S022
Random1
F4412.S023
Random1
F4412.S024
Random1
F4412.S025
Random1
F4412.S026
Random1
F4412.S027
Random1
F4412.S028
Random1
F4412.S029
Random2
F4412.S030
Random2
F4412.S031
Random2
F4412.S032
Random2
F4412.S033
Random2
F4412.S034
Random2
F4412.S035
Random2
F4412.S036
Random2
F4412.S037
Random2
F4412.S038
Random2
F4412.S039
Random2
F4412.S040
Random2
F4412.S041
Random2
F4412.S042
Random2
F4412.S043
Random2
F4412.S044
Random2
F4412.S045
Random2
F4412.S046
Random2
F4412.S047
Random2
F4412.S048
Random2
F4412.S049
Random2
F4412.S050
Random2
F4412.S051
Random2
F4412.S052
Random2
F4412.S053
Random2
F4412.S054
Random2
F4412.S055
Random2
F4412.S056
Random2
F4412.S057
Random2
F4412.S058
Random2
F4412.S059
Random2
F4412.S060
Random2
F4412.S061
Random2
F4412.S062
Random2
F4412.S063
Random2
F4412.S064
Random2
F4412.S065
Random2
F4412.S066
Random2
F4412.S067
Random2
F4412.S068
Random2
F4412.S069
Random2
F4412.S070
Random2
F4412.S071
Random2
F4412.S072
Random2
F4412.S073
Random2
F4412.S074
Random2
F4412.S075
Random2
F4412.S076
Random3
F4412.S077
Random3
F4412.S078
Random3
F4412.S079
Random3
F4412.S080
Random3
F4412.S081
Random3
F4412.S082
Random3
F4412.S083
Random3
F4412.S084
Random3
F4412.S085
Random3
F4412.S086
Random3
F4412.S087
Random3
F4412.S088
Random3
F4412.S089
Random3
F4412.S090
Random3
F4412.S091
Random3
F4412.S092
Random3
F4412.S093
Random3
F4412.S094
Random3
F4412.S095
Random3
F4412.S096
Random3
F4412.S097
Random3
F4412.S098
Random3
F4412.S099
Random3
F4412.S100
Random3
F4412.S101
Random3
F4412.S102
Random3
F4412.S103
Random3
F4412.S104
Random3
F4412.S105
Random3
F4412.S106
Random3
F4412.S107
Random3
F4412.S108
Random3
F4412.S109
Random3
F4412.S110
Random3
F4412.S111
Random3
F4412.S112
Random3
F4412.S113
Random3
F4412.S114
Random3
F4412.S115
Random3
F4412.S116
Random3
F4412.S117
Random3
F4412.S118
Random3
F4412.S119
Random3
F4412.S120
Random3
F4412.S121
Random3
F4412.S122
Random3
F4412.S123
Random3
F4412.S124
Random3
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Read Taxonomy Assignment - ASV Read Counts by Samples
In ecology, alpha diversity (α-diversity) is the mean species diversity in sites or habitats at a local scale.
The term was introduced by R. H. Whittaker[1][2] together with the terms beta diversity (β-diversity)
and gamma diversity (γ-diversity). Whittaker's idea was that the total species diversity in a landscape
(gamma diversity) is determined by two different things, the mean species diversity in sites or habitats
at a more local scale (alpha diversity) and the differentiation among those habitats (beta diversity).
The two main factors taken into account when measuring diversity are richness and evenness.
Richness is a measure of the number of different kinds of organisms present in a particular area.
Evenness compares the similarity of the population size of each of the species present. There are
many different ways to measure the richness and evenness. These measurements are called "estimators" or "indices".
Below is a diversity of 3 commonly used indices showing the values for all the samples (dots) and in groups (boxes).
 
 
 
 
 
Alpha diversity analysis by rarefaction
Diversity measures are affected by the sampling depth. Rarefaction is a technique to assess species richness from the results of sampling. Rarefaction allows
the calculation of species richness for a given number of individual samples, based on the construction
of so-called rarefaction curves. This curve is a plot of the number of species as a function of the
number of samples. Rarefaction curves generally grow rapidly at first, as the most common species are found,
but the curves plateau as only the rarest species remain to be sampled.
Beta diversity compares the similarity (or dissimilarity) of microbial profiles between different
groups of samples. There are many different similarity/dissimilarity metrics.
In general, they can be quantitative (using sequence abundance, e.g., Bray-Curtis or weighted UniFrac)
or binary (considering only presence-absence of sequences, e.g., binary Jaccard or unweighted UniFrac).
They can be even based on phylogeny (e.g., UniFrac metrics) or not (non-UniFrac metrics, such as Bray-Curtis, etc.).
For microbiome studies, species profiles of samples can be compared with the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity,
which is based on the count data type. The pair-wise Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrix of all samples can then be
subject to either multi-dimensional scaling (MDS, also known as PCoA) or non-metric MDS (NMDS).
MDS/PCoA is a
scaling or ordination method that starts with a matrix of similarities or dissimilarities
between a set of samples and aims to produce a low-dimensional graphical plot of the data
in such a way that distances between points in the plot are close to original dissimilarities.
NMDS is similar to MDS, however it does not use the dissimilarities data, instead it converts them into
the ranks and use these ranks in the calculation.
In our beta diversity analysis, Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrix was first calculated and then plotted by the PCoA and
NMDS separately. The results are shown below:
 
 
 
 
 
The above PCoA and NMDS plots are based on count data. The count data can also be transformed into centered log ratio (CLR)
for each species. The CLR data is no longer count data and cannot be used in Bray-Curtis dissimilarity calculation. Instead
CLR can be compared with Euclidean distances. When CLR data are compared by Euclidean distance, the distance is also called
Aitchison distance.
Below are the NMDS and PCoA plots of the Aitchison distances of the samples:
 
 
 
 
 
Interactive 3D PCoA Plots - Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity
 
 
 
Interactive 3D PCoA Plots - Euclidean Distance
 
 
 
Interactive 3D PCoA Plots - Correlation Coefficients
16S rRNA next generation sequencing (NGS) generates a fixed number of reads that reflect the proportion of different species in a sample, i.e., the relative abundance of species, instead of the absolute abundance. In Mathematics, measurements involving probabilities, proportions, percentages, and ppm can all be thought of as compositional data. This makes the microbiome read count data “compositional” (Gloor et al, 2017). In general, compositional data represent parts of a whole which only carry relative information (http://www.compositionaldata.com/).
The problem of microbiome data being compositional arises when comparing two groups of samples for identifying “differentially abundant” species. A species with the same absolute abundance between two conditions, its relative abundances in the two conditions (e.g., percent abundance) can become different if the relative abundance of other species change greatly. This problem can lead to incorrect conclusion in terms of differential abundance for microbial species in the samples.
When studying differential abundance (DA), the current better approach is to transform the read count data into log ratio data. The ratios are calculated between read counts of all species in a sample to a “reference” count (e.g., mean read count of the sample). The log ratio data allow the detection of DA species without being affected by percentage bias mentioned above
In this report, a compositional DA analysis tool “ANCOM” (analysis of composition of microbiomes) was used. ANCOM transforms the count data into log-ratios and thus is more suitable for comparing the composition of microbiomes in two or more populations
References:
Gloor GB, Macklaim JM, Pawlowsky-Glahn V, Egozcue JJ. Microbiome Datasets Are Compositional: And This Is Not Optional. Front Microbiol.
2017 Nov 15;8:2224. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02224. PMID: 29187837; PMCID: PMC5695134.
Mandal S, Van Treuren W, White RA, Eggesbø M, Knight R, Peddada SD. Analysis of composition of
microbiomes: a novel method for studying microbial composition. Microb Ecol Health Dis.
2015 May 29;26:27663. doi: 10.3402/mehd.v26.27663. PMID: 26028277; PMCID: PMC4450248.
LEfSe (Linear Discriminant Analysis Effect Size) is an alternative method to find "organisms, genes, or
pathways that consistently explain the differences between two or more microbial communities" (Segata et al., 2011).
Specifically, LEfSe uses rank-based Kruskal-Wallis (KW) sum-rank test to detect features with significant
differential (relative) abundance with respect to the class of interest. Since it is rank-based, instead of proportional based,
the differential species identified among the comparison groups is less biased (than percent abundance based).
Reference:
Segata N, Izard J, Waldron L, Gevers D, Miropolsky L, Garrett WS, Huttenhower C. Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation. Genome Biol. 2011 Jun 24;12(6):R60. doi: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-6-r60. PMID: 21702898; PMCID: PMC3218848.
To analyze the co-occurrence or co-exclusion between microbial species among different samples, network correlation
analysis tools are usually used for this purpose. However, microbiome count data are compositional. If count data are normalized to the total number of counts in the
sample, the data become not independent and traditional statistical metrics (e.g., correlation) for the detection
of specie-species relationships can lead to spurious results. In addition, sequencing-based studies typically
measure hundreds of OTUs (species) on few samples; thus, inference of OTU-OTU association networks is severely
under-powered. Here we use SPIEC-EASI (SParse InversECovariance Estimation
for Ecological Association Inference), a statistical method for the inference of microbial
ecological networks from amplicon sequencing datasets that addresses both of these issues (Kurtz et al., 2015).
SPIEC-EASI combines data transformations developed for compositional data analysis with a graphical model
inference framework that assumes the underlying ecological association network is sparse. SPIEC-EASI provides
two algorithms for network inferencing – 1) Meinshausen-Bühlmann's neighborhood selection (MB method) and inverse covariance selection
(GLASSO method, i.e., graphical least absolute shrinkage and selection operator). This is fundamentally distinct from SparCC, which essentially estimate pairwise correlations. In addition
to these two methods, we provide the results of a third method - SparCC (Sparse Correlations for Compositional Data)(Friedman & Alm 2012), which
is also a method for inferring correlations from compositional data. SparCC estimates the linear Pearson correlations between
the log-transformed components.
References:
Kurtz ZD, Müller CL, Miraldi ER, Littman DR, Blaser MJ, Bonneau RA. Sparse and compositionally robust inference of microbial ecological networks. PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 May 7;11(5):e1004226. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004226. PMID: 25950956; PMCID: PMC4423992.