Table 3.

Sequencing reads from the environmental samples spiked with 10⁵/ml B. anthracis spores.

B. anthracis environmental sample # (see Table 1 for details)
Mapped reads	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Bacillus anthracis	4,349	899	1,538	1,503	2,490	1,431	3,013	6,201	5,241
Bacillus subtilis	3,948,977	2,933,010	840,997	4,030,754	1,249,576	694,450	1,415,279	3,035,291	2,457,851
Total # of reads	17,713,294	11,502,509	4,273,582	16,400,867	12,182,845	15,383,943	16,174,778	12,510,448	12,628,962
Mapped reads	4,610,922	3,462,640	905,393	4,614,614	1,321,132	1,510,390	1,492,309	3,841,713	2,969,562
Fraction mapped	0.26	0.30	0.21	0.28	0.11	0.10	0.09	0.31	0.24