We also include a brief analysis of microbiome data from a study of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) [28] (link). This comprised faecal samples from 78 individuals where the V5-6 region of the 16S rRNA gene was pyrosequenced using 454. 35 samples were from healthy individuals, 12 from individuals with colonic Crohn's disease (CCD), 15 from individuals exhibiting ileal Crohn's disease (ICD), and 16 from individuals with ulcerative colitis (UC). We processed the data as above. This gave a total of 134,276 reads with individual samples varying in size from 394 to 3,258 with a median of 1,710 reads. 93 separate genera were observed in these samples with a genera diversity per sample that varied from 8 to 33 with a median of 22.
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