Interpreting ITS Results
The results for ITS are similar to those for wgs metagenomic analysis. When you click on a sample name from the datasets dashboard you will see a table with results. The columns include the Name, OTU ID, Frequency, and Relative Abundance. Name: Organism identified at the taxonomy level you are viewing OTU ID: Operational Taxonomic Unit identification. An OTU is a group of organisms as defined by DNA sequence similarity. Frequency: The number of reads that matched the OTU. Relative Abundance: The normalized abundance of the OTU based on frequency.