Fig. 5From: An improved workflow for accurate and robust healthcare environmental surveillance using metagenomicsRelationships between Nonpareil diversity and metadata features for hospital-associated surface samples. a Overall distribution of Nonpareil diversity (black) and distributions for individual studies. b Interquartile range of Nonpareil diversity for microbiome samples from different environments. This study is color coded in orchid. Effects of c sample type, d sampling method, and e sample pooling on Nonpareil diversity. Significance codes are as follows: p > 0.05 (ns), 0.01 < p ≤ 0.05 (*), 0.001 < p ≤ 0.01 (**), p ≤ 0.001 (***)Back to article page