Table 3. Microbial community analysis using short-read (Illumina) and nanopore (MinION) sequencing.

Sample	Read count	OTU count	Reads assigning taxonomic labels (coverage %)
			Order	Family	Genus	Species
A (Illumina)	104,899	1,055	104,389 (99.5%)	78,738 (75.1%)	33,061 (31.5%)	9,082 (8.7%)
B (Illumina)	91,571	978	91,302 (99.7%)	67,229 (73.4%)	34,363 (37.5%)	7,936 (8.7%)
A (MinION)	5,432	N/D	5,396 (99.3%)	4,656 (85.7%)	1,268 (23.3%)	258 (4.7%)
B (MinION)	2,140	N/D	2,145 (99.4%)	1,822 (85.1%)	498 (23.3%)	91 (4.3%)