throat.meta {MiSPU}

Meta data of the throat microbiome samples.

Description

It is part of a microbiome data set for studying the effect of smoking on the upper respiratory tract microbiome. The original data set contains samples from both throat and nose microbiomes, and from both body sides. This data set comes from the throat microbiome of left body side. It contains 60 subjects consisting of 32 nonsmokers and 28 smokers.

Usage

data(throat.meta)

Format

The format is: chr "throat.meta"

Source

Charlson ES, Chen J, Custers-Allen R, Bittinger K, Li H, et al. (2010) Disordered Microbial Communities in the Upper Respiratory Tract of Cigarette Smokers. PLoS ONE 5(12): e15216.

Examples

data(throat.meta)
## maybe str(throat.meta) ; plot(throat.meta) ...