Figure 4From: Short clones or long clones? A simulation study on the use of paired reads in metagenomicsBit scores for Illumina reads. For each of 100,000 (normalized) reads sampled from the HC synthetic metagenome, we plot the highest bit score attained for (a) Illumina single reads (HC-ilm), (b) Illumina short-clone pairs of reads (HC-ilm-S) and (c) Illumina long-clone pairs of reads (HC-lim-L). The latter two charts include the combined bit scores computed using equation (*). The plots for the LC and MC datasets look very similar and are therefore omitted.Back to article page