Are certain taxa (phyla – family?, gram-positives vs. gram negatives) more or less variable than others?

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Are certain taxa (phyla – family?, gram-positives vs. gram negatives) more or less variable than others? #4

Open floresg opened 12 years ago

floresg commented 12 years ago

A. CV of each taxa for each body of each individual a) compare means for each body site and identify stable/variable taxa b) are these consistent between gender? Across universities? Etc.

gregcaporaso commented 11 years ago

To easily compare taxa summary tables with any of the otu table processing code in QIIME you can summarize_taxa.py and then convert_biom.py on the resulting files.