Neighbourhood Map, display as a scatter plot, integrates metabolic distance (x-axis) and taxonomic distances (y-axis) for all taxa covered in MicrobiomeNet based on GEMs, using E. coli as the reference point. Both distance are normalized to a scale of 0 to 1 for comparison purposes.
Metabolic distance:
Determined based on the presence or absence of specific reactions in the
given taxa.
Taxonomic distances:
Extract from a phylogenetic tree built using the NCBI Taxonomy API, which
converts a list of classifications into a tree.