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What does all of this mean?
The results can be broken down into 5 main sections. (Click here for and example report) They are: (1) Single Value metrics commonly used in environmental microbiology such as Simpson's Index of Diversity, reciprocal of Simpson's Index of diversity, Species Evenness, and Shannon-Weaver Diversity Index; (2) Fragment utilization; (3) The phylogenetic distribution (i.e. Pylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, etc) of the species identified in your sample; (4) A list of all the species identified in your sample and (5) Species that have the same fragment pattern called Multiples.
Multiple is a term used by In Silico to mean that more than one species of microbe share the same exact fragment pattern and can not be differentiated by In Silico. To avoid over representation of the microbial diversity we report one or more species with that fragment pattern could be present in your sample.
Unclassified is a term used in the phylogenetic distribution tables to denote that a species identified in the sample has not yet been phylogeneticly assigned by microbiologists. The microbe is known and in the list of species but can not be phylogeneticlly assigned at this time.
The report is tab delimited for easy export to Excel or other spread sheet for analysis and graphical representations of the data.
The results can be broken down into 5 main sections. (Click here for and example report) They are: (1) Single Value metrics commonly used in environmental microbiology such as Simpson's Index of Diversity, reciprocal of Simpson's Index of diversity, Species Evenness, and Shannon-Weaver Diversity Index; (2) Fragment utilization; (3) The phylogenetic distribution (i.e. Pylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, etc) of the species identified in your sample; (4) A list of all the species identified in your sample and (5) Species that have the same fragment pattern called Multiples.
Multiple is a term used by In Silico to mean that more than one species of microbe share the same exact fragment pattern and can not be differentiated by In Silico. To avoid over representation of the microbial diversity we report one or more species with that fragment pattern could be present in your sample.
Unclassified is a term used in the phylogenetic distribution tables to denote that a species identified in the sample has not yet been phylogeneticly assigned by microbiologists. The microbe is known and in the list of species but can not be phylogeneticlly assigned at this time.
The report is tab delimited for easy export to Excel or other spread sheet for analysis and graphical representations of the data.