Table 1.

Properties of the transposon datasets

No.	Av. length	Copies	Coverage	Gr.truth coverage
0	7215 bp	37	37	23
1	7380 bp	49	45	27
2	4672 bp	25	45	27
3	6850 bp	44	51	35
4	6093 bp	16	37	29
5	7538 bp	34	46	26
6	4479 bp	7	51	41
8	5168 bp	9	54	41
9	6371 bp	13	49	33
10	5201 bp	89	48	30
11	4762 bp	135	48	33
12	4690 bp	157	46	33
15	4361 bp	8	48	29
16	7481 bp	12	35	18
19	6128 bp	5	51	32
20	5376 bp	20	41	30
21	5048 bp	22	43	32

The numbering is according to the transposon sequence canonical set, missing numbers are due to transposons being below the length cut-off. Ground truth coverage is calculated on the basis of the reads that can be assigned to a cluster of flanking sequences.