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From: Average genome size estimation improves comparative metagenomics and sheds light on the functional ecology of the human microbiome

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The effect of sequencing error on estimation accuracy. Unsigned error is defined as: |AĜS - AGS|/AGS. (A) MicrobeCensus was used to estimate the AGS of 20 metagenomes that were simulated with up to a 5% sequencing error rate. Metagenomes were composed of 100-bp reads from prokaryotes. (B) MicrobeCensus was used to estimate the AGS of 10 metagenomes that were composed of real Illumina reads pooled from 10 randomly chosen isolate sequencing projects.

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Genome Biology

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