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Table 3 Correlation coefficient of pairwise comparison of gene coverage across communities for mycobacteriophage Gumball and Porky

From: Caught in the middle with multiple displacement amplification: the myth of pooling for avoiding multiple displacement amplification bias in a metagenome

 

Pearson’s correlation coefficient

  

Gumball-2

 

Treatments

Single MDA

Pooled MDA

Gumball-1

Single MDA

0.92‡

0.88‡

 

Pooled MDA

0.90‡

0.89‡

  

Porky-2

 

Treatments

Single MDA

Pooled MDA

Porky-1

Single MDA

0.86‡

0.85‡

 

Pooled MDA

0.84‡

0.88‡

  1. Comparisons were of average coverage for each predicted gene in a genome.
  2. ‡P < 0.0001. MDA, multiple displacement amplification.