Table 2. Mean and variance of AUC values for each of the different distance methods for each serovar.

	Distance
	k-mer based					Site-based
Serovar (N)	Euclidean	Jaccard	Manhattan	Mash	Mash Jaccard	Extended MLST	NUCmer	Average
Agona (282)	0.767 (0.014)	0.849 (0.011)	0.822 (0.023)	0.935 (0.006)	0.944 (0.005)	0.985 (0)	0.959 (0.006)	0.894
Enteritidis (4455)	0.868 (0.002)	0.876 (0.003)	0.88 (0.003)	0.959 (0)	0.959 (0)	0.987 (0)	0.983 (0)	0.930
Heidelberg (580)	0.919 (0.001)	0.889 (0.002)	0.925 (0.001)	0.939 (0)	0.943 (0)	0.994 (0)	0.984 (0)	0.942
Infantis (341)	0.897 (0.002)	0.919 (0.001)	0.906 (0.001)	0.979 (0)	0.982 (0)	0.988 (0)	0.986 (0)	0.951
Kentucky (627)	0.709 (0.013)	0.749 (0.009)	0.756 (0.011)	0.875 (0.001)	0.872 (0.002)	0.968 (0)	0.936 (0)	0.838
Montevideo (287)	0.823 (0.002)	0.832 (0.003)	0.837 (0.004)	0.921 (0.005)	0.916 (0.007)	0.980 (0.001)	0.968 (0.001)	0.897
Newport (827)	0.680 (0.007)	0.677 (0.006)	0.680 (0.008)	0.819 (0.006)	0.813 (0.003)	0.976 (0)	0.948 (0)	0.799
Senftenberg (232)	0.793 (0.006)	0.821 (0.003)	0.814 (0.007)	0.925 (0.001)	0.933 (0.001)	0.974 (0)	0.958 (0)	0.888
Typhimurium (3475)	0.822 (0.003)	0.846 (0.003)	0.846 (0.003)	0.949 (0)	0.948 (0)	0.966 (0)	0.969 (0)	0.907
Weltevreden (268)	0.914 (0.002)	0.915 (0.001)	0.934 (0.001)	0.931 (0.001)	0.907 (0.001)	0.983 (0)	0.982 (0)	0.938
Average	0.819	0.837	0.84	0.923	0.922	0.980	0.967