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Table 1 Description of the 4 sequence datasets and 14 subsets

From: Analysis of the salivary microbiome using culture-independent techniques

  Dataset
  16S-HTS, 20 cycles 16S-HTS, 25 cycles 16S-HTS, 30 cycles WGS
Generated reads 16,345,598 10,732,108 6,150,466 14'724,838
Randomly chosen read pairs 1,200,000 1,200,000 1,200,000 1,000,000
16S rDNA region subset V1 V3 V1 V3 V1 V3  
Filtered forward reads 592,322 566,310 576,701 564,774 546,710 569,459 1,000,000
Filtered reverse reads 532,945 530,504 534,229 523,548 548,009 495,531 1,000,000