Discovering the Unknown: Improving Detection of Novel Species and Genera from Short Reads

Table 5

The table shows the distribution of top 8 most abundant genus reads that passed the genus-resolution detectors for the red soudan acid mine drainage dataset, using the 635-genome training database.

NBC detector		PhymmBL detector		SOrt-ITEMS
Organism	Matched reads	Organism	Matched reads	Organism	Matched reads
Marinobacter	40	Dinoroseobacter	101	Marinobacter	476
Dinoroseobacter	24	Marinobacter	73	Gramella	388
Rhodobacter	23	Ruegeria	59	Dinoroseobacter	297
Shewanella	20	Rhodobacter	41	Rhodobacter	264
Ruegeria	19	Shewanella	41	Flavobacterium	161
Paracoccus	9	Pseudomonas	26	Pseudomonas	131
Desulfotalea	4	Bacillus	21	Alkalilimnicola	111
Bartonella	4	Clostridium	21	Roseobacter	101