Table 4.

Correlation between normalised GA‐map signal data and MiSeq Illumina sequence data (97% sequence identity) for 188 healthy and IBS samples

Taxonomic group	Correlation coefficient (r)a	P‐value
Mycoplasma hominis b	−0.05	0.50
Ruminococcus albus/bromii c	0.31	<0.001
Bacteroides fragilis c	0.38	<0.001
Streptococcus sanguinis/thermophilus c	0.49	<0.001
Phascolarctobacterium	0.72	<0.001
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii	0.75	<0.001
Streptococcus thermophilus	0.78	<0.001
Akkermansia	0.79	<0.001
Eubacterium	0.79	<0.001
Megashera/dialister	0.83	<0.001
Ruminococcus gnavus	0.86	<0.001
Dialister	0.88	<0.001
Alistipes	0.90	<0.001
Bifidobacterium	0.90	<0.001
Shigella/Escherichia	0.93	<0.001
Lactobacillus/Pediococcus	0.94	<0.001

^aCorrelation coefficients were determined for the closest matching taxonomic bins.

^bMycoplasma only identified in one sample by MiSeq Illumina sequencing.

^cIllumina sequencing did not enable selective detection of species.