Figure 4

Frequency distribution of similarities of experimental reads and simulated reads to the [7,3] barcode set and to the 27-nt-long barcoded PCR primer set. The orange bars depict the frequency distribution of the minimal distances of the barcode or barcoded PCR primer set to the experimentally established reads f^emp(equal to Figure 3(B) resp. (D)). The slate blue and lime green bars depict the frequency distribution derived from a simulation, with the slate blue bar depicting the distribution of barcoded reads $f_{\mathit{\text{barcoded}}}^{\mathit{\text{sim}}}$ and the lime green bar the distribution of orphaned reads $f_{\mathit{\text{orphaned}}}^{\mathit{\text{sim}}}$. Bars of simulated frequencies were stacked.