Table 5.

Characteristics of simulated ancient metagenomic datasets representing three distinct environments: bone, dental calculus, and gut

Sample	# Taxa	Coverage	# Reads (merged)	Total length	GC content (%)
Bone	34	3×	13,481,538	689,950,613	57.62
Bone	34	5×	22,469,438	1,149,702,991	57.62
Bone	34	10×	44,938,811	2,299,239,612	57.62
Dental Calculus	59	3×	8,169,233	417,738,204	43.77
Dental Calculus	59	5×	13,615,501	696,358,011	43.76
Dental Calculus	59	10×	27,231,047	1,392,706,548	43.77
Gut	116	3×	25,583,926	1,308,958,512	42.45
Gut	116	5×	42,640,124	2,181,743,052	42.45
Gut	116	10×	85,279,973	4,363,114,755	42.45

The table summarizes the number of taxa, average coverage depth, number of sequences, total sequence length, and GC content (%) for representative datasets simulated with short fragments and moderate damage