Table 1.
Statistics for sequenced datasets
| Dataset | Number of species | Sequencing platform | Statistics before correction | Statistics after correction | Estimated chimera rate | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of 2D pass reads (# of reads) | Number of bases | N50 (average read length) | Number of reads | Number of bases | N50 (average read length) | Template switching | Intermolecular ligation | |||
| Simple synthetic community (PacBio) | 3 | PacBio | - (126456) | 669259255 | 7308 (5292) | 16327 | 11855990 | 734 (726) | 0.03 | 0.0006 |
| Simple synthetic community (Nanopore) | 3 | MinION | 14583 (45268) | 82074997 | 6807 (5628) | 2177 | 1592303 | 731 (730) | 0.006 | 0.0009 |
| Ladder synthetic community (replicate 1) | 10 | MinION | 7444 (27937) | 31866337 | 4570 (4280) | 1076 | 794358 | 739 (738) | - | - |
| Ladder synthetic community (replicate 2) | 10 | MinION | 2904 (7989) | 22446690 | 10536 (7729) | 1183 | 867494 | 732 (733) | - | - |