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Table 1 Roche-454 reads statistics. Summary of the Roche-454 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-454

MC-454

HC-454

Simulated reads

6,000

6,000

6,000

Simulated base pairs

1,548,902 bp

1,541,252 bp

1,573,651 bp

Average read length

258.15 bp

256.88 bp

262.28 bp

Insertions

35,796 (2.3%)

35,425 (2.3%)

36,013 (2.3%)

Deletions

8,911 (0.5%)

8,839 (0.5%)

9,208 (0.5%)

Substitutions

0

0

0