BeCrop Portal Tool: Abundance BoxPlot

Analyze the microorganism abundances

The abundance BoxPlot or MO WBP is used to discover differences between relative abundance for a specific microorganism among sample clusters. For example to answer the following questions:

• • Which are the minimum and maximum values of a MO between different clusters or samples?
  • Are there a similar relative abundance of a specific MO between different sample groups?

Creating clusters

Watch the video and read for more information: 

 

As you can see in the image, you must first select which samples you want to add to each cluster. Just click on the "down arrow". Each time you click a number will appear, this number indicates the cluster in which you are going to add the sample. In the image you can see that the samples from the "DEMO-CS" plot will be part of cluster "1" and the samples from the "Stone-VE" plot will be part of cluster "2". 

 

On the bottom of the page you can see each cluster composition, as the following picture you can see: 

When you have saved your cluster configuration you can load it by clicking on "Load Saved Configurations" (check the following picture to see where it is located) 

 

📊 Once you create your clusters, then is time to compare and analyse.  So just click on "COMPARE" to see the results.

Evaluating results 

As soon as you click on the "Compare" button you will get the results. 

As you can watch in the video you can look for a specific microorganism base on Genus or Species. To do so, you can select one of the ones that you can see on the dropdown or just type the microorganism you are looking for.

The analysis will show you the abundance in each cluster by comparing the average, the maximum and the minimum presence of the microorganism.