abundance unit #28
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abundance unit
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Hi! When modelling communities based on metagenome data, is it recommend using relative or absolute abundances? Thanks!! |
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cdiener
Apr 2, 2021
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MICOM uses relative abundances internally, so if you give absolute ones they will just be converted to relative abundances in the construction step. So feel free to use what you'd like. Those are used as proxy for the relative amount of biomass (gDW) in lack of better data. |
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Okay, good to know. |
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MICOM uses relative abundances internally, so if you give absolute ones they will just be converted to relative abundances in the construction step. So feel free to use what you'd like. Those are used as proxy for the relative amount of biomass (gDW) in lack of better data.