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Table 2 Count table assessment summary

From: A framework for assessing 16S rRNA marker-gene survey data analysis methods using mixtures.

Assessment

Measurand

Metric

Pipelines

Rank

Qualitative

Presence/ absence

AFP

DADA2

3

   

Mothur

1

   

QIIME

1

  

Sparsity

DADA2

1

   

Mothur

3

   

QIIME

2

Quantitative

Relative abundance

Bias

DADA2

1

   

Mothur

2

   

QIIME

3

  

Variance

DADA2

1

   

Mothur

1

   

QIIME

1

 

Differential abundance

Bias

DADA2

3

   

Mothur

1

   

QIIME

1

  

Variance

DADA2

1

   

Mothur

1

   

QIIME

1

  1. Pipelines are ranked (1–3) based on performance for each component of the assessment framework