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Figure 2 | Microbiome

Figure 2

From: Forensic analysis of the microbiome of phones and shoes

Figure 2

Summary of predictive accuracy of SourceTracker models in determining which of the two study participants a sample was taken from based only on the microbial communities of the floor samples those shoes had interacted with. For the models, all four shoe samples taken by each participant at a given time point were consolidated and treated as individual sinks (N = 29 and 27 for persons 1 and 2, respectively). All floor samples from the two participants’ time series were collapsed and treated as the two possible sources to the shoe sink communities.

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