Fig. 1
From: High-resolution strain-level microbiome composition analysis from short reads
A StrainScan achieves higher strain-level resolution by searching strains inside identified clusters. In contrast, cluster-level tools like StrainGE and StrainEst only return the representative strain of the identified cluster and will not search for other strains in the cluster. “S1” and “S2” are two input metagenomic samples. B–C Gene content differences between strains from a real cluster (named cluster 1) containing 216 E. coli strains. The 10 strains in B have a total of 1722 strain-specific genes. “GCF_001695515” and “GCF_013167975” in C are the longest and shortest strain in cluster 1, respectively