Table 6

Effect of filter threshold on best match lineages for T. acidophilum


Filter threshold setting



0%
2%
5%
10%
20%
40%

Picrophilus
604
658
760
852
919
976
Sulfolobus
106
104
81
76
50
40
Other Archaea
483
437
373
302
267
236
Bacteria
97
92
78
62
54
37
Eukaryotes
4
3
3
3
5
6

Total matches
1,294
1,294
1,295
1,295
1,295
1,295

As in Table 1 for E. coli, a zero percent filter threshold setting retains only candidates with bit scores equal to the top non-self blast match. A setting of 100% retains all matches as candidates for subsequent LPI calculations. Some columns have slightly lower total numbers due to matches with uncultured organisms, which contain no lineage information but were not filtered out in this experiment.

Podell and Gaasterland Genome Biology 2007 8:R16   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-2-r16