Figure 4
From: Alignment and clustering of phylogenetic markers - implications for microbial diversity studies
Sensitivity of OTU structure to masking. Comparison of OTU sets constructed with (x-axis) and without (y-axis) the application of a LaneMask to the multiple alignment generated by NAST. Both axes are labeled by the corresponding VI distance from the true species clustering. Overall, masked alignments resulted in poorer concordance to the true data labels. The dashed line is the identity function y = x.