Table 1. Overview of the results of quality filtering, chimera detection and analysis for all sponge samples.
Total sponge samples | 8 |
Total raw sequences | 300,801 |
Sequences below length requirement | 29,314 |
Sequences violating homopolymer limit | 36 |
Sequences passing quality filtering | 271,451 |
Putative chimeric reads | 5,939 |
Final high-quality sequence count | 265,512 |
Avg. reads per sample | 33,189 |
Final number of OTUs | 9,444 |
Unique phyla detected | 18 |