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Several subsampling-based normalization strategies were applied to different high-throughput sequencing data sets originating from human and murine gut environments. Their effects on the data sets' characteristics and normalization efficiencies, as measured by several β-diversity metrics, were compared. For both data sets, subsampling to the median rather than the minimum number appeared to improve the analysis.
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