Fig. 1. Performance evaluation of raspir on species level based on a representative complete simulation run (seed 222).

Bold row names highlight the true positive species of the simulated mock community. The dark-green and light-green colours represent the true positive core and rare species of the community, respectively. The orange colour visualises false positive species. While the read number of the core species remained constant throughout all the runs, the x-axis corresponds to the increasing number of short reads (75 bp) that were generated for rare species during the eight simulation runs.