Task: visualize the abundance of a specific microbial Species against the measurement Site
Alpha diversity task
Use the available tools to assess and visualize alpha diversity, and augment colData
Exercises 17.5.1-17.5.2
Add Shannon diversity in colData
Visualize diversity differences between sample groups
Alpha diversity & aging
Healthy & normal obese subjects.
Alpha diversity and diet
Alpha diversity
How many types?
Distribution of types?
Dominance of types?
Alpha diversity
How many types?
Distribution of types?
Dominance of types?
Alpha diversity indices
Richness
number of types
Eetimates of true richness based on finite sample sizes (Howard Sanders 1968); see e.g. Chao1
Evenness
distribution of sizes (even or uneven?)
Diversity
Combining richness & evenness
Dominance
Finite sampling
High-quality reference genomes are required for functional characterization and taxonomic assignment of the human gut microbiota.
Unified Human Gastrointestinal Genome (UHGG):
4,644 gut prokaryotes (>70% lack cultured representatives)
204,938 nonredundant genomes
Encode >170 million protein sequences, collated into Unified Human Gastrointestinal Protein (UHGP) catalog.
UHGP more than doubles the number of gut proteins in comparison to those present in the Integrated Gene Catalog.
40% of the UHGP lack functional annotations
Intraspecies genomic variation analyses revealed a large reservoir of accessory genes and single-nucleotide variants, many of which are specific to individual human populations.
The UHGG and UHGP collections enable studies linking genotypes to phenotypes in the human gut microbiome.
Estimating species content
Common alpha diversity indices
Phylogenetically neutral diversities:
Richness (observed, Chao1, ACE)
Evenness (Pielou’s evenness)
Diversity (inverse Simpson, Shannon)
Phylogeny-aware diversities:
Faith diversity index
Phylogenetic diversity indices
Inverse Simpson
How likely it is to pick two members of the same species at random?
Inverse Simpson
Beware the variants:
Simpson (\(\lambda\))
reciprocal Simpson (\(1-\lambda\))
inverse Simpson (\(\frac{1}{\lambda}\))
Shannon diversity
Shannon Index:
True Richness:
True diversity, or the effective number of types, refers to the number of equally abundant types needed for the average proportional abundance of the types to equal what is observed in the dataset of interest.
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