Xander: employing a novel method for efficient gene-targeted metagenomic assembly

Microbiome

Table 3 Nitrite reductase (nirK) genes found in bulk assembly of pooled rhizosphere samples

Sample	Corn	Miscanthus	Switchgrass
File size (GB)	349	325	277
Data size (Gbp)	293	275	233
# protein contig clusters^a	41	37	39
# OTUs at 95 % aa identity	38	33	34
Median length (aa)	131	115	130
Max length (aa)	234	252	301
Median % aa identity^b	75.6	79.6	73.3
Max % aa identity^b	95.1	94.3	92.1
# reads covering kmers	105	123	106
Gene abundance	0.25	0.25	0.3

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