Fig. 1
From: iMAP: an integrated bioinformatics and visualization pipeline for microbiome data analysis
Schematic illustration of the iMAP pipeline. The required materials including data files, software, and reference databases must be in place before executing the iMAP pipeline. The initial step in the analysis is sample metadata profiling followed by pre-processing and quality checking of demultiplexed 16S read pairs which are then merged, aligned to reference alignments, classified then assigned conserved taxonomy names. Output from each major step is transformed, visualized, and summarized into a progress report