Table 1.

Comparing the consensus from mapping to the reference constructed by shiver with the consensus from mapping to the closest identified real reference.

Number of bases called differently, with higher coverage when mapping to the shiver reference than to the real reference	Min	0
	Median	13
	Mean	16.8
	Max	57
Number of bases called differently, with higher (or equal) coverage mapping to the real reference than to the shiver reference	Min	0
	Median	0
	Mean	1.2
	Max	24
Extra length of the shiver consensuses compared with the real reference’s consensus (in number of bases)	Min	−54
	Median	205
	Mean	239.4
	Max	1,262

Minima, medians, means, and maxima are over the combined set of sixty-five Miseq and fifty Hiseq samples processed. Means are rounded to one decimal place.