Table 3.

Accuracy and number of assigned reads on M2 datasets

M2	0.1×	1×	4×
MTR
Kingdom	95.27 (9030)	95.07 (88 537)	91.41 (174 583)
Phylum	93.83 (9030)	93.21 (88 537)	88.75 (174 583)
Class	89.98 (9012)	89.25 (87 635)	86.32 (168 854)
Order	90.44 (8822)	89.24 (85 657)	86.14 (167 222)
Family	80.56 (7264)	77.35 (81 366)	73.01 (159 591)
Genus	64.41 (6480)	61.36 (77 307)	55.91 (147 139)
LCA
Kingdom	94.82 (7205)	94.66 (73 176)	90.76 (143 226)
Phylum	93.21 (7205)	92.57 (73 169)	87.80 (143 206)
Class	89.82 (5941)	88.98 (60 294)	83.59 (117 881)
Order	89.90 (5615)	88.44 (57 373)	83.01 (113 168)
Family	83.77 (4757)	81.84 (48 760)	77.61 (100 925)
Genus	76.91 (3907)	74.60 (40 823)	69.68 (82 805)