Low Community Composition

[adamber1187]

Hello all,

I'm running HumanN2 with shotgun metagenome samples (150 bp). On the Metaphlan2 step the amount of species for my first sample is 81, but only explains 30.78% of predicted community composition. The input is about 5.5 million base pairs. Just curious why the amount explained is so low? When I've done this in the past it's usually 99-100%.

Thanks in advance,

Adam

[Eric Franzosa]

My first guess would be that a lot of predicted abundance is assigned to "Genus_unclassified" levels. These don't have pangenomes in HUMAnN2 to be selected, hence the abundance of the selected pangenomes adds up to a lot less than 100%.

Thanks,

Eric

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[adamber1187]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the reply. Is this considered a normal thing? In the past when I've used Humann2, the composition was close to 100%. All of my samples now are 15-30%.

-Adam

On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 2:03:08 PM UTC-7, Eric Franzosa wrote:

My first guess would be that a lot of predicted abundance is assigned to "Genus_unclassified" levels. These don't have pangenomes in HUMAnN2 to be selected, hence the abundance of the selected pangenomes adds up to a lot less than 100%.

Thanks,

Eric

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:40 PM adamber1187 <adam.be...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I'm running HumanN2 with shotgun metagenome samples (150 bp). On the Metaphlan2 step the amount of species for my first sample is 81, but only explains 30.78% of predicted community composition. The input is about 5.5 million base pairs. Just curious why the amount explained is so low? When I've done this in the past it's usually 99-100%.

Thanks in advance,

Adam

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