Looking at a count_table file, the first 3 rows below the header are as follows:
M06066_213_000000000-CPDBH_1_1110_9021_18302 6192 14,1 361,958 382,266 39,1 401,325 42,641
M06066_213_000000000-CPDBH_1_1110_15902_18350 1 40,1
M06066_213_000000000-CPDBH_1_1110_19646_18542 109 1,2 29,3 30,2 31,1 38,8 40,63 42,30
I am wondering why for the first sequence (ending in _18302), the numbers don’t seem to add up; the sequence occurs 6129 times, but the 6 numbers after the comma don’t add up to 6192. Is this an error or am I misreading the table?
Hi Sarah, thanks for following up on my query. It turns out that it’s an excel issue. Excel interprets the “,” as a separator, like 1,000. For instance 40,2041 appears as 402,041. As a consequence the numbers after the comma do not add up to the total shown in column 2. The abundance values are correct if I open the count table in Notepad. Suggestion: instead of comma, inserting a semicolon between group and abundance would take care of the “problem”.