Soft Topographic Maps for Clustering and Classifying Bacteria Using Housekeeping Genes

Figure 4

2D representation of bacteria dataset obtained through Multidimensional Scaling. Apart from the four outliers, “Legionella pneumophila,” “Alterococcus agarolyticus,” “Francisella tularensis,” “Buchnera aphidicola,” that are separated from all the other elements, the remaining bacteria do not show meaningful similarities with the visualizations obtained through topographic map and phylogenetic tree.