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Table 2 Synthetic metagenome original content and detected taxonomic composition

From: Census-based rapid and accurate metagenome taxonomic profiling

Organism (% reads)

Tax-depth 31(% detected2)

Tax-depth 4 (% detected)

Tax-depth 5 (% detected)

Tax-depth 6 (% detected)

Tax-depth 7 (% detected)

E. coli (50)

γ-proteobacteria 46.7969-50.79693 (48.764, 48.575)

Enterobacteriales 46.70-50.79 (48.74, 47.35)

Enterobacteriaceae 46.70-50.79 (48.74,47.35)

Escherichia 46.70-48.021 (47.36, 47.26)

E. coli 44.98-47.32 (46.15,47.21)

B. subtilis (20)

Bacilli 19.23-23.52(21.97, 19.86)

Bacillales 18.906-23.50(21.8, 19.0)

Bacillaceae 18.26-23.50(21.6, 18.90)

Bacillus 18.06-22.80(21.57, 18.1)

B. subtilis group 16.90-20.42 (21.30, 17.40)

S. cerevisiae (20)

Fungi 18.23-20.36 (19.29,19.07)

Dikarya 18.23-19.24 (19.05, 19.05)

Ascomycota 17.233-19.6(18.9,18.775)

Saccharomyceta 14.33-17.13(16.29, 15.92)

Saccharomycotina 14.01-15.52(15.12,15.07)

A. fulgidus (7)

Archaeoglobi 4.86-7.23 (6.19, 7.01)

Archaeoglobales 4.86-7.13 (6.11, 6.91)

Archaeoglobaceae 4.76-7.02 (6.09, 6.8)

Archaeoglobus 4.76-7.02 (6.09, 6.78)

A. fulgidus 3.6-6.02 (5.89, 5.80)

H. adenovirus 5 (2)

Mastadenovirus 1.23-2.14 (1.86,1.80)

Human adenovirus C 0.23-0.94 (0.18, 0.8)

Hits split6

Hits split

Hits spit

Vaccinia virus (1)

Chordopoxvirinae 0.98-1.83 (1.10, 1.40)

Orthopoxvirus 0.86-1.13 (1.05, 0.98)

Vaccinia virus 0.70-0.81 (0.71, 0.73)

Hits split

Hits split

  1. 1Refers to taxonomic depth.
  2. 2Percent of reads that hits the taxonomic node.
  3. 3Range of percent detected.
  4. 4Mean.
  5. 5Median.
  6. 6Hits are split between closely related organisms.
  7. Results are based on 250 random reads and 50 iterations.