Fig. 1.

Experimental validation and effective number of strains inferred by DEploid. We use Reference Panel V to deconvolve the same lab-mixed samples, assuming 3 and 5 strains within a sample. Each experiment is repeated without a reference panel. Black crosses indicate the true effective number of strains. Red crosses indicate median values obtained from 30 replicates when using a panel and assuming that the maximum number of strains is 5. The coloured dots show the inferred effective number of strains across replicates with intensity proportional to fraction