Table 2.
Results of blastn mapped to NCBI taxonomic tree for the data from three different processing methods. The numbers in the table represent the number of sequences with hits to a particular node.
| Node | Processing method 1 | Processing method 2 | Processing method 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total sequences | 568,199 | 563,877 | 837,655 |
| Root | 69 | 19,175 | 994 |
| Cellular organisms | 566,179 | 395,478 | 826,765 |
| Viruses | 95 | 131,741 | 5480 |
| Unclassified sequences | 48 | 264 | 187 |
| Other sequences | – | 28 | – |
| Not assigned | 84 | 8186 | 594 |
| Low complexity | 2 | – | – |
| % of viruses/total | 0.02% | 23.36% | 0.65% |