Compute basic statistics, rarefy and summarize OTU/SV tables using micca

Note

This tutorial requires Paired-end sequencing - 97% OTU to be done.

The command tablestats reports a sample summary, an OTU summary and the rarefaction curves for the input OTU/SV table:

micca tablestats -i denovo_greedy_otus/otutable.txt -o tablestats

Inspecting the file tablestats/tablestats_samplesumm.txt you can see that the less abundant sample contains 512 reads:

Sample          Depth   NOTU    NSingle
B1114D1-PL1-E4  512     145     68
B1014D2-PL1-C4  1356    152     57
B0214D3-PL1-F1  1665    192     74
...             ...     ...     ...

Note

Rarefaction curves can be inspected through tablestats/tablestats_rarecurve.txt and tablestats/tablestats_rarecurve_plot.png.

To compare different samples, the OTU/SV table must be subsampled (rarefied) using the command tablerare. In this case we are interested in rarefy the table with the depth of the less abundant sample (B1114D1-PL1-E4):

micca tablerare -i denovo_greedy_otus/otutable.txt -o denovo_greedy_otus/otutable_rare.txt -d 500

Now we can summarize communities by their taxonomic composition. The tabletotax creates in the output directory a table for each taxonomic level (taxtable1.txt, …, taxtableN.txt). OTU counts are summed together if they have the same taxonomy at the considered level.

micca tabletotax -i denovo_greedy_otus/otutable_rare.txt -t denovo_greedy_otus/taxa.txt -o taxtables

Finally, we can generate a relative abundance bar plot from generated taxa tables, using the command tablebar. In this case only the bar plot relative to the taxonomy level 2 (phylum) will be generated:

micca tablebar -i taxtables/taxtable2.txt -o taxtables/taxtable2.png