Fig. 1
From: LightCUD: a program for diagnosing IBD based on human gut microbiome data
Schematic of the LightCUD framework. The input data to LightCUD is the raw reads of the sample in FASTA format. First, with the ‘-t’ parameter, LightCUD decides the data type. For different data types, different customized reference databases are used. For both WGS and 16S data, LightCUD goes through a two-stage judgment. At the first stage, LightCUD decides whether the query sample is healthy or IBD. If IBD, LightCUD further judges the specific type, namely, UC or CD