Supported beta-diversity Measures

Qualitative measures requiring a rooted split system:

• Bray-Curtis (aka: Sorensen, PhyloSor, Dice's index, pairwise Whittaker)
• Canberra
• Coefficient of similarity
• Euclidean
• Gower
• Kulczynski (aka: Kulczynski-Cody, Sokal-Sneath)
• Lennon compositional difference
• Manhattan (aka: Hamming distance)
• Soergel (aka: unweighted UniFrac, Jaccard, Ruzicka)
• Tamas coefficient (TC) (aka: simple matching coefficient)
• Weighted correlation

Quantitative measures requiring a rooted split system (use -w flag):

• Bray-Curtis (aka: normalized weighted UniFrac, percentage difference)
• Canberra
• Coefficient of similarity
• Complete tree
• Euclidean
• Gower
• Kulczynski
• Lennon compositional difference
• Manhattan (aka: weighted UniFrac)
• Morisita-Horn
• Soergel (aka: Ruzicka, Marczewski-Steinhaus, percentage remoteness)
• Tamas coefficient
• Weighted correlation
• Yue-Clayton (aka: similarity ratio)

Root-invariant quantitative measures (use -w flag):

• Complete tree
• Euclidean
• Gower
• Manhattan (aka: weighted UniFrac)