The effect of low-abundance OTU filtering methods on the reliability and variability of microbial composition assessed by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
- 1Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
- 2Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- 3Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
- 4Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
- 5Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
- 6Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
by Nikodemova M, Holzhausen EA, Deblois CL, Barnet JH, Peppard PE, Suen G and Malecki KM (2023). Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 13:1165295. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2023.1165295
Error in Figure/Table
In the published article, there was an error in Table 2 as published. Table 1 was incorrectly duplicated, while Table 2 was omitted. The corrected Table 2 and its caption The effect of filtering method on difference α-diversity metrics appear below.
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: OTU (Operational Taxonomic Unit), filtering, microbiome, low abundance, reliability – reproducibility of results, accuracy
Citation: Nikodemova M, Holzhausen EA, Deblois CL, Barnet JH, Peppard PE, Suen G and Malecki KM (2024) Corrigendum: The effect of low-abundance OTU filtering methods on the reliability and variability of microbial composition assessed by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 14:1419131. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1419131
Received: 17 April 2024; Accepted: 29 May 2024;
Published: 13 June 2024.
Edited and Reviewed by:
Gang Ye, Sichuan Agricultural University, ChinaCopyright © 2024 Nikodemova, Holzhausen, Deblois, Barnet, Peppard, Suen and Malecki. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Elizabeth A. Holzhausen, Elizabeth.Holzhausen@colorado.edu
†These authors have contributed equally to this work