Species-level bacterial community profiling of the healthy sinonasal microbiome using Pacific Biosciences sequencing of full-length 16S rRNA genes

Table 1 Community characteristics

	BEI-EC	CAMI	HSNM-MS
Source	Biodefense and Emerging Infections Research Resource Repository (BEI)	Joint Genome Institute (JGI)	Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Type	Mock community	Mock community	Wild community
Details	BEI Even B (Catalog ID: HM-782D)	CAMI competition	Human Sinonasal Microbiome
Number of bacterial species	20	282 (308 strains)	Unknown
Number of other species	2 (archaeal and fungal)	2 (archaeal)	Unknown
Species distribution	Reportedly even	Widely varying	Unknown
Other	Pooling DNA based on 16S qPCR	Pooling DNA based on genomic DNA mass	12 subjects, 6 sites, swab, and biopsy

Source and composition characteristics of BEI-EC and CAMI (mock communities) and HSNM-MS (Human sinonasal community)

ISSN: 2049-2618