Fig. 2

Visualisation of the relationship between different mock communities following sequencing and taxonomic profiling by a variety of approaches. A nMDS plot of a Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrix was constructed from the species composition of five reference reagents following shotgun sequencing and taxonomic profiling by five different bioinformatics tools, MetaPhlAn2, Kaiju, Kraken, Bracken, and Centrifuge. Gut-HiLo = NIBSC Gut-HiLo-RR. Gut-Mix = NIBSC Gut-Mix-RR. MSA_1000 = ATCC MSA-1000. MSA_1001 = ATCC MSA-1001. MSA_1002 = ATCC MSA-1002. MSA_1003 = ATCC MSA-1003. Zymo = ZymoBIOMICS Microbial Community Standard