| Description |
DOTUR expects a distance matrix created from sequence alignment data and assigns sequences to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) for every distance level that can be used to form OTUs.
DOTUR can use nearest (single linkage), furthest (complete linkage) or average neighbor (UPGMA) algorithms. The default is further neighbor.
Once sequences are assigned to an OTU, frequency dat for each distance level is used to construct rarefaction curves, Shannon's and Simpson's diversity indices. Chao1, ACE, Jackknife and Bootstrap richness estimators are also calculated.
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