Fig. 5

(a) The distance of each sample to its gold standard after the principal coordinate analysis using the Jaccard distance for QIIME2 analysis in the simulated (Sim) dataset. (b) Amplicon sequence variant (ASV) assignment error: False positive percentage means the percentage of ASVs that were assigned in the samples but were not originally present in the gold standard. False negative percentage is the percentage of ASVs that were not detected in the samples but were included in the gold standard