Table S1. Phenotype information of AS patient individuals and health controls in discovery stage (156 samples) and validation stage (55 samples). Table S2. Data production and quality control of 156 samples in discovery stage and 55 samples in validation stage. Table S3. The 8743 reference genomes from NCBI and HMP (downloaded on 15 Dec 2013). Table S4. The differentially abundant genus in AS patients (n = 73) and healthy controls (n = 83). Table S5. Assembly result of 156 samples in discovery stage. Table S6. The improvement with the repeatedly assembly. Table S7. Gene prediction of 156 samples in discovery stage. Table S8. Genes with abundance which belong to proteasome modules. All the differentially abundant genes identified in this study only belong to bacterial proteasome. Table S9. The taxonomic annotation of MGSs. Table S10. The phenotypic correlation analysis (p value) of 12 MGSs according to different clinical groups. Table S11. Comparison of the MGS in different diseases. Table S12. The taxonomic annotation of CAGs (Gene number ≥ 100). Table S13. The details of the best markers selected for five monitoring and classification models based on five kinds of bio-markers. Table S14. The 210 differentially abundant sequenced reference genome markers used for classification training. (XLSX 870 kb
