Table 2.

Statistics of contigs, Sanger sequences, and their alignments.

(a) Contig lengths of four known bacteria in three test samples.
Sample	Length of longest contig (bp)
	Legionella	Chryseobacterium	Pseudomonas	Bacillus
S1	780	1483	1468	479
S2	1143	1052	1193	N.A.
S3	1487	N.A.	N.A.	845
(b) Results of BLAST alignments between each contig and the Sanger sequence.
Genus	Sanger (bp)	Identity (%); mismatch; gap
		S1	S2	S3
Legionella	832	99.8; 0; 1	99.6; 0; 2	99.6; 0; 2
Chryseobacterium	1126	100; 0; 0	100; 0; 0	N.A.
Psuedomonas	1529	100; 0; 0	99.8; 1; 1	N.A.