Table 1 Counts of unique taxa identified using Boston pilot 16S amplicon and shotgun metagenomics datasets in at least one samples. Percent overlaps from the shotgun perspective are reported in parentheses
| Â | Overall Taxa Counts | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Technology (tool) | Taxa | species | genus | family | order | class | phylum |
Amplicon 16S | Bacteria | 143 | 328 | 173 | 83 | 52 | 18 |
Shotgun (Kraken2 + Bracken) | All | 1630 | 523 | 201 | 89 | 37 | 20 |
Bacteria Only | 1516 | 500 | 186 | 81 | 33 | 16 | |
Overlap | 75 (5%) | 197 (39%) | 117 (63%) | 46 (57%) | 23 (70%) | 12 (75%) | |
Shotgun (MetaPhlAn2) | All | 342 | 239 | 116 | 50 | 28 | 16 |
Bacteria Only | 322 | 211 | 102 | 44 | 23 | 12 | |
Overlap | 61 (19%) | 128 (61%) | 84 (82%) | 36 (82%) | 17 (74%) | 9 (75%) | |