Table 1.

The number of bins identified by the binning tools for each dataset

Dataset	Ground truth bins	Assembly type	Binning tool	Number of bins identified
Sim-5G	5	metaSPAdes	CONCOCT	7
			MaxBin2	5
			SolidBin	5
		SGA	CONCOCT	11
			MaxBin2	5
			SolidBin	5
Sim-10G	10	metaSPAdes	CONCOCT	12
			MaxBin2	10
			SolidBin	10
		SGA	CONCOCT	14
			MaxBin2	9
			SolidBin	9
Sim-20G	20	metaSPAdes	CONCOCT	22
			MaxBin2	21
			SolidBin	20
		SGA	CONCOCT	28
			MaxBin2	20
			SolidBin	19
Sharon-1 [39]	12	metaSPAdes	CONCOCT	27
			MaxBin2	5
			SolidBin	5
		SGA	CONCOCT	25
			MaxBin2	5
			SolidBin	4
Sharon-All [39]	12	metaSPAdes	CONCOCT	48
			MaxBin2	11
			SolidBin	9
		SGA	CONCOCT	27
			MaxBin2	8
			SolidBin	5
50G-SR	50	metaSPAdes	CONCOCT	44
			MaxBin2	44
			SolidBin	45
Lake Water [40]	57	metaSPAdes	CONCOCT	149
			MaxBin2	57
			SolidBin	N/A${}^{\ast }$
100G-LR [37]	100	metaFlye	CONCOCT	76
			MaxBin2	76
			SolidBin	86

${}^{\ast }$ SolidBin [22] could not be run on the Lake Water dataset due to insufficient memory