Look at using mock community data as use case in application

[erictleung]

Mock communities are commonly used, so it would be good to make use of their known structure to possibly compare to and see how these measures work for them.

[vnsriniv]

This is a curated database of different mock community datasets.. The issue is they are all raw datasets (fastq) and have to be processed through a pipeline to get OTU tables and taxonomy. But if we can do that, we can include these datasets in our tools with expected and measured diversity values. https://github.com/caporaso-lab/mockrobiota/tree/master/data/. Would like everybody's opinion on whether this will be useful? If so I can chose a few relevant datasets, run it through the usual mothur pipeline and generate OTU tables and taxonomy to use.