Fig. 1

Estimated Real versus Synthetic Health Human Stool Microbiota. a Each column represents one sample. Each band represents one organism. The height of each band of color is proportional to the relative abundance of each sequence type. Taxonomically similar organisms are closer in color. Colors are by phylum (inspired by a gram stain): Blue and purple for Firmucutes; orange for Bacteroides; Tan and pinks for Proteobacteria. Estimated relative abundances from real data are on the left and underlined in purple for healthy donor human stool microbiota, blue for the human microbiome project samples; synthetic data is on the right, and underlined in green. b The diversity of the each microbiota (synthetic in green, healthy donor in purple and Human Microbiome Project (HMP) in blue) for Hill numbers varying from −1 to 5, in 0.5 intervals. Solid lines are the mean, and dashed lines span the 95% confidence interval after bootstrapping 5000 iterations (with replacement) for the mean