Table 3. Datasets used for performance testing.
Dataset | Sequencing technology | Library type | Total SSU rRNA reads* |
Lake Lanier | GS FLX Ti | Shotgun metagenome | 558 |
Forest soil | GS FLX Ti | Shotgun metatranscriptome | 51,202 |
Siberian soil | Illumina | 16S rRNA amplicons | 2,173 |
Hydrothermal mat | GS FLX Ti | 16S rRNA amplicons | 8,903 |
Reads with a BLASTN alignment bitscore >50 to a sequence in SilvaMod.