Table 4. Comparison with other viral metagenomics data sets.
| Metagenomic Dataset | November | June | ||
| Hits | Percent Reads | Hits | Percent Reads | |
| Coastal RNA Virus Communities | 396 | 17.4% (28376) | 140 | 13.3% (22092) |
| GOS | 3512 | 17.8% (29078) | 2014 | 15.5% (25683) |
| Marine Viromes | 1337 | 8.3% (13537) | 980 | 6.3% (10502) |
| Acid Mine | 234 | 1.9% (3093) | 152 | 3.3% (5427) |
| Farm Soil | 81 | 0.5% (855) | 55 | 1.8% (3060) |
| Whale Fall | 63 | 0.3% (568) | 30 | 1.3% (2222) |
| Deep Mediterranean plankton | 33 | 0.1% (188) | 36 | 1% (1685) |
| Sludge communities | 628 | 4.7% (7649) | 42 | 1.7% (2872) |
| Chesapeake Bay Virioplankton | 43 | 0.4% (584) | 53 | 0.9% (1572) |