Table 4 Accuracy of contamination estimates on a simulated early modern human with double-stranded deamination patterns and high present-day modern human contamination. Three cores were used for every program. The programs contamMix and contDeam estimate contamination on a per fragment basis while mtCont estimates contamination on a per nucleotide basis. The contamination on a per nucleotide basis is higher due to the longer average length of contaminating fragments

From: Schmutzi: estimation of contamination and endogenous mitochondrial consensus calling for ancient DNA