Table 1.

Detected misclassified taxonomic proteins in the NR database

taxa	Total	root	Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
2	17 496 167	30 237	47 271	202 205	59 606	177 132	290 065
3	5 921 066	14 376	19 666	107 705	38 575	104 709	236 515
4	2 132 971	4673	21 587	64 801	17 662	47 914	94 054
5	1 022 482	3143	9469	34 322	10 050	27 295	53 276
6	642 760	2509	5662	24 136	7333	23 324	37 998
7	388 794	1572	3959	12 972	5905	13 488	27 221
8	262 682	1121	2803	5988	5375	10 075	16 340
9	190 756	783	2647	3825	3173	7557	12 681
10	156 767	667	1843	3805	2451	6413	11 327
>10	960 891	10 940	23 232	30 048	38 679	46 391	107 679

The first two bold rows show the highest potential misassignments because if a protein has two or three taxonomic assignments and shows a root or kingdom violation, it is more likely to be misclassified.