Fig. 3.

Adding additional representative assemblies for species with broad genomic diversity improves taxon identification. Intraspecies ANI of all assemblies from Listeria monocytogenes ( L. monocytogenes ) and Vibrio vulnificus ( V. vulnificus ) against only their corresponding type assemblies (‘excluding clade ref’) and after including additional representative assemblies (‘including clade ref’). Red circles indicate the best match ANI value of assemblies against only their type assemblies and blue circles indicate the new best match ANI value after including the additional representative assemblies. 8 % of L. monocytogenes and 99 % of V. vulnificus assemblies that previously didn’t match their type assemblies matched the newly added representative assemblies at above the expected ANI threshold.