Table 6.

Real-life datasets: number of reads assigned up to a rank

	Saltern	Coral	Chicken
MTR
Kingdom	1581	24 522	111 655
Phylum	1576	23 027	111 650
Class	1530	21 920	109 986
Order	1317	21 019	108 100
Family	1035	15 583	100 676
Genus	979	11 422	94 507
Species	937	9560	89 818
LCA
Kingdom	1217	21 287	93 416
Phylum	1208	16 526	93 399
Class	1051	12 301	87 917
Order	807	6841	87 146
Family	691	5045	70 376
Genus	635	4685	69 636
Species	311	4340	29 160