Table 2 Illumina short-clone reads statistics. Summary of the Illumina short-clone reads generated by MetaSim for each of the three synthetic metagenome datasets LC, MC and HC.
From: Short clones or long clones? A simulation study on the use of paired reads in metagenomics
LC-ilm-S | MC-ilm-S | HC-ilm-S | |
|---|---|---|---|
Simulated reads | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 |
Read length | 75 bp | 75 bp | 75 bp |
Clone length | 200 bp | 200 bp | 200 bp |
Simulated base pairs | 15,000,000 | 15,000,000 | 15,000,000 |
Insertions | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Deletions | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Substitutions | 227,913 (1.5%) | 228,516 (1.5%) | 227,279 (1.5%) |