Fig. 1

Benchmarking of Scoary2’s automatic binarization based on simulated datasets for different effect sizes. Panels on the left show the distributions from which the numeric phenotype was sampled based on the presence or absence of a designated causal gene. Panels on the right indicate the rank of the causal gene in the output of Scoary in relation to the number of genomes in the simulated dataset. The black line indicates the average rank and the grey area indicates 90 % confidence interval based on 20 simulations