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Table 1 Percent GC of crude extract, size-selected, and cosmid library datasets. GC content was calculated after subtraction of E. coli and vector DNA from all samples

From: Strong spurious transcription likely contributes to DNA insert bias in typical metagenomic clone libraries

Sample/dataset

No. reads

No. Mb

% GC

Crude extract F

6,654,484

599

47.7

Crude extract R

6,654,567

599

47.8

Size-selected F

6,645,306

598

46.9

Size-selected R

6,645,817

598

46.9

Cosmid library F

5,134,020

462

53.0

Cosmid library R

5,191,538

467

53.1