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The beta diversity results are presented in a Data viewer session, with two PCoA plots on the canvas. One plot shows the clustering based on the Bray-Curtis coefficient distance metric. The other shows the clustering on the Jaccard index distance metric. In both plots, each point is a different sample and they cluster together based on how similar their overall metagenomic profiles are. Points very close together are similar, points far apart are different. The Configuration panel on the left can be used to customize the plots.

To obtain the table of pairwise comparisons (dissimilarity matrix) for each distance metric, click the appropriate hyperlink below the Data viewer. 

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