Arabidopsis thaliana Microbiome Human Microbiome Project
Total taxa 14,890 11,752
Total reads 1,770,731 1,893,867
Total samples 288 319
NCBI accession number ERP001384 HM16STR
Sequencing platform 454 Illumina
Method Number of taxa assigned to core Number of taxa assigned to core
Cumulative proportion of sequence reads 1245 (8.36%) 1108 (9.42%)
Proportion of replicates 2036 (13.67) 1850 (15.74%)
Proportion of sequence reads and replicates 907 (6.09%) 204 (1.73%)
Hard cutoff 181 (1.21%) 554 (4.71%)
Not assigned to core by any method 12854 (86.32%) 9902 (84.3%)
Unique taxa assigned to core by any method 2,036 1,850