Fig. 1From: Assessment of k-mer spectrum applicability for metagenomic dissimilarity analysisVariation of metagenomes using different dissimilarity measures. PCoA plots for different dissimilarity measures: a BC kmer, b BC COG, c WG UniFrac, d BC TAX (org), e BC MetaPhlAn (org). Three samples-outliers are marked with asterisks. f Heatmap of Spearman correlation coefficient between dissimilarity matrices obtained using different measures (the upper triangle of matrix represents coefficients for China, the lower - for HMP)Back to article page