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Fast expectation maximization for microbial source tracking
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Cannot understand the parameter named "Coverage" #52

Open diego00012138 opened 1 year ago

diego00012138 commented 1 year ago

The description "COVERAGE - A numeric value indicating the rarefaction depth (default = minimal sequencing depth within each group of sink and its corresponding sources)." makes me confused. Whether "sequencing depth" means the sum of OTU abundances, and if correct, whether the sum can change the results by normalizing the data like Flattening