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Table 3 Presence of Glycine, Serine, and Threonine subsystems in the AMD, SEED, and Sargasso databases. The table is a subset of the data from the supplemental data [see Additional File 3].

From: An application of statistics to comparative metagenomics

No1

Name2

K3

Classification4

# AMD5

# SEED6

# SS7

AMD per million8

SEED per million9

SS per million10

Prev.11

206

Glycine synthesis

A

Amino

Acids

Alanine, serine,

and glycine

7

24

34

923

19

35

Sargasso

207

Glycine synthesis

B

  

2

492

483

264

390

503

Sargasso

426

Serine biosynthesis

A

  

13

166

244

1713

132

254

Sargasso

427

Serine biosynthesis

B

  

7

1545

1257

923

1224

1309

Sargasso

475

Threonine synthesis

B

 

K, T, M, and C

8

1070

952

1054

848

991

Sargasso

  1. 1Subsystem number
  2. 2Subsystem name as designated by the curator
  3. 3K: Kingdom (A: Archaea; B: Bacteria; E: Eukaryota)
  4. 4Classification of the subsystem. K, T, M, and C: Lysine, threonine, methionine and cysteine.
  5. 5Number of proteins present in the AMD sample
  6. 6Number of proteins present in the SEED sample
  7. 7Number of proteins present in the Sargasso Sea sample (SS).
  8. 8–10Number of proteins present in the AMD, SEED, and Sargasso samples normalized per million proteins in each sample.
  9. 11Statistically significant prevalence. Prev.: prevalence.