FMT Tutorial Question 2c

[jwdebelius (Justine Debelius)]

Hi @YinXun,

If you know that Bray-Curtis also takes abundance into account with unweighted UniFrac doesn't, does that help you answer the question?

I find this post really helpful when considering alpha and beta diversity

Alpha and Beta Diversity Explanations and Commands

About the Alpha and Beta Diversity Analysis Tutorial This Alpha and Beta Diversity Community Tutorial (run using QIIME 2017.12) walks you through analyzing the alpha and beta diversity of a sample dataset. Below you will find a link to a small test dataset to download and use in this tutorial. Files used in tutorial The following files, derived from the Moving Pictures tutorial, are used in this document. table.qza rooted-tree.qza Alpha Diversity Analysis The alpha and alpha-phylogenetic met…

(I'm also really surprised at your results, are you sure they're correctly labeled? How do they look compared to the tutorial results?)

Best,
Justine

PS I moved this to the general discussion, since it's more theory about metrics.