This post originated from a dialog with a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics that I often discuss many aspects of microbiome analysis with. The root of the problem is how many “Reads” from a 16s sample do you deem to be threshold for reliability. A “Read”, “num_hits” or “Count” is the number of matches to specific … Continue reading Technical Note: With the same set of samples from the same labs you can get very different averages!