Peptide markers of aminoacyl tRNA synthetases facilitate taxa counting in metagenomic data

BMC Genomics

Table 1 Taxa-counting example of Rios Mesquites metagenomic short reads carrying a common SP.

Index	Short read (translated to amino-acid string)
1	ILTSSSPEGARDFLVPSRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLI
2	VFFSFLLGFTKGKFYALPQAPQTILSNLFMVSGFDKYFTNC	X
3	PSRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFDRYFQIAPCFR
4	DFLVPSRLHKGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLVMVSGFDKYFQI	X
5	RFFSSFLGLHKGKFYALPQAPQQFKLTCHGIRVILSN	X
6	GARDFLVPSRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFD
7	ARDFLVPSRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLVMVSGFDRYFQI	X
8	DFLVPSRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFDKYFQIA
9	DFLVPSRLHKGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLVMVSGFDKYFQL	X
10	SRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFDRYFQIAPCF
11	YFLVPSRLHKGKFYALPQAPQQFKLTCHGIRVILSNC	X
12	QAGCGLYCSKQIKSWKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMI	X
13	LNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFDRYFQIAPCFR
14	SFKSRKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFDRYFQIAPCFG	X
3 = 3U10U13	PSRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFDRYFQIAPCFR	X
1U6U8	ILTSSSPEGARDFLVPSRLNPGKFYALPQAPQQFKQLIMVSGFDKYFQIA	X

The first 14 rows display the short reads. The two last rows are fused strings of short reads used for solving the minimal chromatic number problem. Entries in the last column indicate 10 independent sequences (inconsistent with each other).

ISSN: 1471-2164