Table 3.

Species level profiling for a ‘ladder’ synthetic community

Species	Relative abundances
	Defined	INC-Seq
Staphylococcus aureus	0.362	0.631
Streptococcus pyogenes	0.320	0.148
Helicobacter pylori	0.160	0.096
Fusobacterium nucleatum	0.080	0.037
Bifidobacterium longum	0.040	0.042
Klebsiella pneumoniae	0.020	0.009
Salmonella typhimurium	0.010	0.022
Staphylococcus epidermidis	0.005	0.007
Neisseria subflava	0.002	0.004
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii	0.001	0.002