Fig. 3.

ISR pipeline provided greatest resolution of microbial communities. a The number of sequence variants generated by each of the the pipelines. b The percentage of variants unique to a single subject, as determined by each of the three pipelines. c The percentage of variants shared by all five subjects, as determined by each of the three pipelines. d Box-and-whisker plot shows the degree of separation among the samples or sample resolution, as measured by calculating the Euclidean distances in principal coordinate space between the samples and the centroid, based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarities. Asterisks represent level of significance based on p values from the Wilcoxon rank-sum test