Table 2. Comparison of the richness (Chao1) and diversity (Inverse Simpson) indexes for clustering-first pipelines before taxonomic merging, on the 200(V3) HC dataset with sequencing errors simulation when generating 25k, 50k and 100k sequences.
| Chao1 | Inverse Simpson | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25k | 50k | 100k | 25k | 50k | 100k | |
| BMP GG | 1580 | 2780 | 4731 | 234.71 | 278.83 | 294.1 |
| mothur S | 1395 | 2655 | 4662 | 118.60 | 125.67 | 130.35 |
| QIIME U GG | 1140 | 1780 | 2764 | 149.27 | 151.73 | 154.11 |
| QIIME SS GG | 696 | 885 | 1256 | 130.31 | 129.33 | 129.09 |