TABLE 1.

Comparisons of MicrobioSee and other popular visualization tools.

	Vegan	USEARCH11 64-bit	Phyloseq	Metaviz	Qiime2	OriginPro	GraphPad Prism v9	Animalcules	TBtools	MicrobiomeAnalyst	MicrobioSee
Literature integration											✔
3D molecular structure											✔
Installation-free										✔	✔
Interface				✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Interactive visualization			✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Diversity visualization	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔		✔	✔
Free use	✔		✔	✔	✔			✔	✔	✔	✔
Language/platform	R	Linux	R	R	Linux	Windows	Windows/macOS	R	Windows	Modern browsers	Modern browsers

The features are assessed using the symbol “✔” for “present.”