Table II. De novo analysis of FASTA files created from metagenomes obtained from various melt water sources from a Greenland glacier. Five melt water samples obtained from early, mid, and late summer collected from either the glacier surface or subsurface (rock-ice interface).
| Melt water | Total PSMs | Total unique sequences | Novor PSMs | Novor unique sequences | Database PSMs (%) | Database unique sequences (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface melt; early season | 3325 | 1736 | 2371 | 1399 | 28.7 | 19.4 |
| Subsurface melt; early season | 3411 | 1623 | 1810 | 1025 | 46.9 | 36.8 |
| Subsurface melt; mid season | 4691 | 2077 | 2620 | 1483 | 44.1 | 28.6 |
| Surface melt; mid season | 4438 | 2116 | 2637 | 1456 | 40.6 | 31.2 |
| Subsurface melt; late season | 3523 | 1407 | 2369 | 1188 | 32.8 | 15.6 |