Number of reads from an artifical metagenome of known composition (SimLC dataset; [<b>19</b>]) which were included in the metagenome (black bars) and assigned to the correct bacterial species by Genometa (blue bars).

<p>Only the top 21 species of the 113 bacteria included in the dataset are shown. Genometa achieves a high accuracy on this dataset. Asterisks indicate strains which are included in the SimLC dataset but not in the Genometa reference sequence. Inter strain differences generally mean less reads are attributed to these taxa. The cross denotes a species which is not present in the Genometa reference sequence.