During the course, we will go through the theory, concepts, and open source R tools for conducting and interpreting these and other related analyses that belong to the standard toolkit in microbial bioinformatics.
The following visualisations were created using the Human microbiome project phase I data. The 16S rRNA gene variable region sequenced here is V1-V3. The raw reads were processed using QIIME 1.9.1, SortMeRNA, and OTU picking was done using the Closed-reference OTU-picking at 97% identity. We acknowledge the effort of the authors of Human microbiome project phase I for making the data freely available.