Table 3.

Taxonomic Distribution of Alignments to the Panmicrobial Database.

Level	Microbial Sequences in Databasea	Aligned in Any Sampleb	Overrepresented in ≥ 1 MS sample
GI (sequence)	1,265,518	1439	Not done
Species	10,654	735	165
Genus	1,175	392	84
Family	376	185	42
Order	161	97	23
Class	67	38	14
Phylum	39	22	9

^aIncluding bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and viruses.

^bTaxa where ≥1 samples align to ≥1 database sequences (MAPQ value ≥  10).