As we all know that 16S amplicon seq data by Illumina sequencing is semi-quantitative and therefore I want to normalize my data output with the qPCR 16S data. Can you please recommend me some statistical method of doing so?
@ Ajit kumar Roy - can you please explain how the link suggested by you solves the question ?
@ Muhammad Arslan - have you considered doing RT-qPCR using the standard curves of total bacterial/archeael plasmids at several concentrations ? I dont think illumina data and qPCR could be normalized in any other way, but would like to see other answers.
Thanks Abhijeet. Indeed this is a good argument. But I am not sure what do you mean by several concentrations. Are you referring to inhibition factor? If yes, then I do have 3 concentrations of qPCR for each reaction. 1. actual, 2. 1/100, and 3. 1/1000
Actual concentration didnt work so good but the other two did work.