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. 2012 Nov 29;7(4):685–696. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2012.143

Table 2. Descriptive statistics and diversity estimates for bacterial and archaeal sequences.

Summary statistics Count
Raw input sequences 223 119
Length outside bounds of 200 and 1000 20 212
Ambiguous bases 4296
Missing quality score 0
Qual score below minimum of 25 6545
Max homopolymer run exceeds limit of 6 2167
Sequences written to selected samples 87 008
Raw length min/max/avg 40/957/371
Wrote length min/max/avg 200/479/344
Sample statistics  
Sample ID Water mass Sequence count
OTUs/sample
Chao1
Simpsons
Shannon
    Bacteria Archaea Bacteria Archaea Bacteria Archaea Bacteria Archaea Bacteria Archaea
Water
 CTD12.06 Pacific 3107 6526 477 226 758 181 0.04 0.12 4.58 3.23
 CTD12.07 Atlantic 1995 2424 364 167 666 192 0.02 0.05 4.68 3.72
 CTD12.08 Atlantic 2408 5625 488 258 778 189 0.02 0.05 4.99 3.82
 CTD22.09 Surface 2316 935 255 35 386 54 0.07 0.49 3.99 1.26
 CTD22.10 Pacific 2172 3641 408 176 697 169 0.05 0.06 4.48 3.56
 CTD22.11 Pacific 2212 8059 475 304 859 214 0.03 0.07 4.83 3.74
 CTD31.12 Surface 4578 63 331 20 419 17 0.07 0.14 4.04 2.43
 CTD31.13 Atlantic 3074 4059 551 210 836 201 0.02 0.05 5.04 3.79
 CTD31.14 Atlantic 2135 4109 573 157 1039 131 0.01 0.06 5.41 3.48
 
Sediment
 3.59 Atlantic 2160 139 857 32 1471 41 0.00 0.10 6.19 2.77
 3.58 Atlantic 3102 37 1006 17 1452 11 0.01 0.08 6.20 2.55
 3.57 Atlantic 2011 515 726 52 1154 57 0.01 0.08 5.90 3.18
 8.110 Pacific 2749 1092 1097 113 1600 47 0.01 0.02 6.30 4.13
 8.109 Pacific 1271 178 354 28 595 32 0.02 0.08 4.96 2.83
 8.108 Pacific 2648 941 459 35 734 38 0.03 0.11 4.65 2.65
 8.107 Pacific 2899 128 601 12 822 13 0.02 0.21 5.26 1.85
 13.212 Atlantic 1019 872 426 115 926 179 0.02 0.04 5.18 3.89
 13.211 Atlantic 1033 370 475 70 1037 91 0.01 0.04 5.60 3.62
 13.210 Atlantic 1339 1323 463 133 879 61 0.03 0.11 4.97 3.25
 13.209 Atlantic 1472 272 458 39 914 51 0.02 0.08 5.20 2.92
 Average   2285 2065 542 110 901 98 0.02 0.10 5.12 3.13
 Total   45 700 41 308 6204 901            

Abbreviation: OTU, operational taxonomic unit.