Supplemental Table S2. Summary statistics on well to well contamination across DNA extraction and PCR replicate plates from UCSD and Argonne,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,Contamination (W2W),,,,Composition,,, location,Extraction,PCR,sample_type,reads_mean,n_original,n_>1 read,Prevalance,Prevalance_%,richness_mean_total,richness_w2w,mean,stdev,median,max UCSD,Tube,a,ntc,381,32,31,15,48.40%,23,0.04,0.0479,0.1066,0,0.4511 ,,b,ntc,187,32,30,14,46.70%,16,0.04,0.0435,0.1064,0,0.56 ,Plate 1,a,ntc,1057,32,25,25,100.00%,18,0.23,0.5419,0.3689,0.536,0.995 ,,b,ntc,956,32,29,29,100.00%,10,0.41,0.7502,0.309,0.8612,1 ,Plate 2,a,ntc,216,32,30,27,90.00%,16,0.21,0.4615,0.3424,0.4333,1 ,,b,ntc,702,32,32,30,93.80%,14,0.27,0.5732,0.377,0.6478,1 Argonne,Tube,a,ntc,9410,32,32,17,53.10%,165,0.02,0.0085,0.018,0.0003,0.0823 ,Plate,a,ntc,1285,32,28,3,10.70%,8,0.04,0.0314,0.1431,0,0.7517 UCSD,Tube,a,sink,6625,48,45,5,11.10%,21,0,0.0002,0.0009,0,0.0054 ,,b,sink,4657,48,48,9,18.80%,19,0.02,0.0008,0.004,0,0.0278 ,Plate 1,a,sink,8229,48,48,36,75.00%,19,0.11,0.0118,0.0269,0.0014,0.1561 ,,b,sink,8193,48,45,36,80.00%,15,0.18,0.0125,0.0242,0.0019,0.1212 ,Plate 2,a,sink,10654,48,46,28,60.90%,15,0.09,0.0017,0.0035,0.0004,0.0183 ,,b,sink,12009,48,48,26,54.20%,9,0.12,0.0017,0.0034,0.0002,0.0145 Argonne,Tube,a,sink,11802,48,48,24,50.00%,189,0.02,0.0231,0.0873,0,0.5934 ,Plate,a,sink,3728,48,46,15,32.60%,16,0.07,0.1399,0.2842,0,0.9871 UCSD,Tube,a,source,12328,16,15,10,66.70%,18,0.07,0.0002,0.0003,0.0001,0.001 ,,b,source,12325,16,16,9,56.30%,18,0.06,0.0023,0.0075,0.0001,0.0299 ,Plate 1,a,source,10072,16,16,11,68.80%,14,0.13,0.001,0.0019,0.0003,0.0074 ,,b,source,8004,16,16,14,87.50%,15,0.19,0.0354,0.1258,0.0012,0.5067 ,Plate 2,a,source,10729,16,16,9,56.30%,9,0.07,0.0004,0.0005,0.0003,0.0017 ,,b,source,12607,16,16,11,68.80%,11,0.15,0.0008,0.001,0.0004,0.0035 Argonne,Tube,a,source,35410,16,16,14,87.50%,21,0.14,0.0002,0.0002,0.0002,0.0007 ,Plate,a,source,67035,16,16,13,81.30%,17,0.17,0.0237,0.0908,0.0001,0.364 richness_w2w: proportion of total richness which is explained by well to well contamination,,,,,,,,,,,,,,