Table 4.

Accuracy and number of assigned reads on M3 datasets

M3	0.1×	1×	4×
MTR
Kingdom	100.00 (11 792)	99.97 (116 869)	100.00 (166 948)
Phylum	99.58 (11 792)	99.47 (116 869)	99.86 (166 948)
Class	96.97 (11 763)	97.07 (116 134)	99.73 (166 936)
Order	91.79 (11 606)	91.70 (115 034)	97.67 (166 148)
Family	92.27 (11 117)	91.25 (111 560)	97.62 (165 231)
Genus	94.06 (10 419)	92.19 (101 533)	97.42 (140 476)
LCA
Kingdom	100.00 (10 333)	99.96 (102 824)	99.99 (155 263)
Phylum	99.72 (10 333)	99.69 (102 813)	99.93 (155 258)
Class	98.86 (9162)	98.82 (91 445)	99.81 (141 829)
Order	96.74 (7788)	96.62 (77 822)	98.14 (115 732)
Family	96.87 (7545)	96.42 (75 616)	98.04 (110 488)
Genus	97.61 (6748)	96.01 (68 573)	98.35 (110 139)