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. 2021 Dec 2;1:774631. doi: 10.3389/fbinf.2021.774631

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Copyright © 2021 Peeters, Thas, Shkedy, Kodalci, Musisi, Owokotomo, Dyczko, Hamad, Vangronsveld, Kleinewietfeld, Thijs and Aerts.

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An overview of the visual encodings used to display within (alpha) and between (beta) diversity; (A) alpha diversity metrics compared between groups by means of box-plots in BiomMiner (Shamsaddini et al., 2020), (B) rarefaction curve showing the number of OTUs by sequence size in Mothur (Schloss et al., 2009), (C) alpha diversity metrics visualized using scatter plots in Phyloseq (McMurdie and Holmes, 2013), (D) beta diversity visualized using ordination in iMAP (Buza et al., 2019), (E) a node-link diagram produced using TDA in TMAP to display beta diversity (Liao et al., 2019), (F) heatmap visualizations showing beta diversity distance matrices (Lei et al., 2017).