Figure 2

Convergence of reconstructed SSU sequences and abundance estimates. (a-d) Algorithm convergence for both the simulated simple microbial community (a, b) and natural community (c, d) is shown. In (a, c), the number of nucleotide (nt) changes made in all reconstructed SSU sequences is plotted for each iteration. In (c, d), each line represents a different reconstructed SSU sequence: the prior probability (abundance estimate) of each SSU sequence is plotted for each iteration. Only SSU sequences with ≥ 1% prior probability at convergence are shown.