Skip to main content

Table 2 Overview of the positions of the selected sites

From: A systematic search for discriminating sites in the 16S ribosomal RNA gene

Database

V1

V2

V3

V4

V5

V6

V7

V8

V9

Outside

Greengenes

0

7

2

6

3

1

3

0

2

26

RDP

0

7

1

6

3

3

1

0

1

28

SILVA

2

6

1

6

4

3

1

0

1

26

  1. Each cell shows the number of selected sites for phylum classification found inside the variable regions V1-V9 for the three data sets. The rightmost column, named Outside, are the number of selected sites outside the variable regions. The total number of selected sites are 50 in each case.