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Figure 1. Cohort overview, including sample and metadata exploration. (A) Number of metagenomes (Y-axis) separated derived from athlete and sedentary control populations; bar charts are colored according to the variables “Female” (Red) and “Male” (Blue); (B) Number of metagenomes (Y-axis) separated according to exercise group (X-axis); bar charts are colored according to the variables “Female” (Red) and “Male” (Blue); (C) The 25th to 75th percentile distribution of reads (Y-axis) across the datasets considered in this study (X-axis); (D) Summary description of each metagenomics dataset considered in this study; details include ENA study accession number, metadata of the metagenomes, number of metagenomes, average number of reads per dataset, and sequencing platform used. ENA: European Nucleotide Archive.