Microbial characterization based on multifractal analysis of metagenomes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The species diversity of microbiomes is a cutting-edge concept in metagenomic research. In this study, we propose a multifractal analysis for metagenomic research.

Method and results

Firstly, we visualized the chaotic game representation (CGR) of simulated metagenomes and real metagenomes. We find that metagenomes are visualized with self-similarity. Then we defined and calculated the multifractal dimension for the visualized plot of simulated and real metagenomes, respectively. By analyzing the Pearson correlation coefficients between the multifractal dimension and the traditional species diversity index, we obtain that the correlation coefficients between the multifractal dimension and the species richness index and Shannon diversity index reached the maximum

SUBMITTER: Xie XH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9910082 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature