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Table 3 Compositional similarity of technical replicates

From: LotuS: an efficient and user-friendly OTU processing pipeline

OTU

LR

LB

QR

QD

 Bray-Curtis

0.117267

0.1158

0.106167

0.153467

 Canberra

0.037446

0.037591

0.038509

0.036918

 Jensen Shannon

0.001487

0.001572

0.001602

0.001651

Genus

LR

LB

QR

QD

 Bray-Curtis

0.0496

0.048133

0.044133

0.045933

 Canberra

0.055303

0.055628

0.05864

0.05339

 Jensen Shannon

0.002053

0.002067

0.002236

0.001977

Family

LR

LB

QR

QD

 Bray-Curtis

0.046867

0.043333

0.042833

0.044933

 Canberra

0.060573

0.057641

0.065774

0.063415

 Jensen Shannon

0.002129

0.002124

0.002432

0.002502

  1. The technical replicates between two MiSeq runs were compositionally compared, using Bray-Curtis, Canberra and Jensen Shannon distance metric. The table shows the average distance of 38 pairs of replicates, for each pipeline execution mode. Less distance means more similar replicate samples.