Fig. 4From: Rapid and sensitive detection of genome contamination at scale with FCS-GXFCS-GX detection of contamination in the NCBI RefSeq database. a Aggregate length of total genome sequence (solid line) and contaminated sequence detected by FCS-GX (dashed line) in NCBI RefSeq from 2017 to 2023. b Contaminant fraction detected by FCS-GX (dashed line) in NCBI RefSeq database from 2017 to 2023, i.e., the quotient of the contaminant amount divided by the total amount displayed in a. See Additional file 1: Table S17 for supporting numerical Refseq contamination summary dataBack to article page