Figure 6

Comparison of the gene catalog for different replicates of the two DNA extraction methods. (A) For each individual a total gene catalog was created using all six replicates, resulting in total number of genes shown in the second row. The following rows show the numbers and percentage of the genes from the total gene catalog present in the gene catalogs for the individual replicates. (B) Schematic representation of the total gene catalog for one of the studied individuals, showing overlap of the genes discovered by all, some or none of the replicates with the HMP and MetaHIT methods. (C) Taxonomy annotation at the genus level for the genes specific to each method, that is, detected in all three replicates from one method, but none of the replicates from the other method. (D) Functional category annotation for the genes specific to each method.