Table 1. Accuracy of base callers on two R7.3 testing data sets.

The results of base calling were aligned to the reference using BWA-MEM [28]. The accuracy was computed as the number of matches in the alignment divided by the length of the alignment.

	E. coli	K. pneumoniae
Template reads
Metrichor	71.3%	68.1%
Nanocall	68.3%	67.5%
DeepNano	77.9%	76.3%
Complement reads
Metrichor	71.4%	69.5%
Nanocall	68.5%	68.4%
DeepNano	76.4%	75.7%
2D reads
Metrichor	86.8%	84.8%
DeepNano	88.5%	86.7%