Figure 4. False positives in single-colony samples versus synthetic mixtures.

Abundance estimates from synthetic mixtures of three lineages do not result in higher number of false positive estimates when compared to estimates from the single-colony samples, as measured by the largest estimate for a lineage that does not contribute any sequencing reads. The only exception is the S. epidermidis 11-cluster case which is not accurately identified in neither the synthetic mixtures nor the single-colony samples.