Table 2

Significant differences in the comparison of marine and soil metagenomes. The five most statistically significant differences in numbers of reads assigned to taxon classes in the comparison of marine [19] and soil [18] metagenomes. A positive support (proportion of deviation) indicates that the difference is in favor of the soil dataset, whereas a negative sign indicates the opposite.

Comparison of marine and soil datasets

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Phylum level Support

Proteobacteria +37.95

Cyanobacteria +33.54

Acidobacteria -29.31

Chlorophyta +22.67

Chloroflexi -18.83

Class level Support

Prochlorales +267.33

Thermoprotei +82.36

Oligohymenophorea +52.36

Aconoidasida +50.36

Prasinophyceae +52.33

Huson et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2009 10(Suppl 1):S12   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S12