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Table 3 Minimum detection thresholds used to score the presence/absence of mock community taxa at the species or genus level

From: Evaluation of taxonomic classification and profiling methods for long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing datasets

Dataset

Number of reads

0.001% threshold

0.1% threshold

1% threshold

HiFi ATCC MSA-1003

2,419,037

24

2419

24,190

HiFi Zymo D6331

1,978,852

19

1978

19,788

ONT R10 Zymo D6300

275,318

2

275

2753

ONT Q20 Zymo D6300

2,000,000

20

2000

20,000

Illumina ATCC MSA1003

10,038,314

100

10,038

100,383

Illumina Zymo D6300

20,000,000

200

20,000

200,000