Fig. 3

Read classification of low-complexity in silico synthetic communities using Bowtie 2 and PathoScope 2.0. a The proportion of mappable reads generated from synthetic communities composed of 5, 10, or 20 S. epidermidis or B. fragilis strains. b The proportion of mappable versus wrongly assigned reads generated from synthetic communities composed of five different Staphylococcus or Bacteroides species, or species representing five different bacterial phyla