Table 2.

Information about the cohorts.

Cohort	Number of samples	Project study	BioProject accession
HMP Healthy	251 (136M + 115F)a	HMP-DACC [18,19]	PRJNA43017
Crohn’s Disease	60 (23M + 37F)	Metagenomic Analysis of the Structure and Function of the Human Gut Microbiota in Crohn’s Disease [20]	PRJNA46321
Ulcerative Colitis	17 (16M + 1F)	The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Ulcerative Colitis [21]	PRJNA46881

This information includes the cohort name, number of samples, name of the project (with reference) and BioProject Accession (project identifier to obtain the shotgun sequence sample data). ^a136 males and 115 females in the healthy cohort.