Fig. 7: Salmonella culture-positive status vs. high-throughput sequencing read abundance.
From: Monitoring the microbiome for food safety and quality using deep shotgun sequencing

Read abundance (RPM) shown from a k-mer classification to NCBI Microbial RefSeq Complete, b alignments to 1447 Salmonella genomes, and c alignments to 4846 EF-Tu gene sequences. Salmonella presence (red) indicates culture-positive result, absence (green) indicates culture-negative result, and no record (black) indicates samples for which no culture test was completed.