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Table 6 Numbers of differentially abundant taxa by valid methods on data normalized by rarefaction or CSS

From: Powerful and robust non-parametric association testing for microbiome data via a zero-inflated quantile approach (ZINQ)

 

Rarefaction

CSS

Corncob

16 ∗

–

DESeq2

34 ∗

–

EdgeR

33 ∗

–

LDM

11

23

Limma

24

–

Linear regression

5

25

MetagenomeSeq

–

40 ∗

Monocle

121 ∗

20

QRank

13

12

ZINQ-MinP

48

37

ZINQ-Cauchy

49

41

  1. ∗: method that inflates type I error