Table 2. Species abundance and percentage of sampled reads of the simMC dataset.
| Abdce | Species | Mbpa | 454-100b | 454-250c | S-800d |
| 100 | Pseudomonas fluorescens PfO-1 | 6.4 | 38,42 | 38,39 | 38,13 |
| 100 | Shigella dysenteriae Sd197 | 4.6 | 27,07 | 27,47 | 27,25 |
| 80 | Pasteurella multocida subsp. multocida str. Pm70 | 2.3 | 10,82 | 10,87 | 10,81 |
| 50 | Buchnera aphidicola str. APS | 6.6 | 1,97 | 1,94 | 1,78 |
| 50 | Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis Schu 4 | 1.9 | 5,69 | 5,60 | 5,56 |
| 25 | Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2 | 3.1 | 4,68 | 4,57 | 4,60 |
| 25 | Candidatus Blochmannia floridanus | 7.1 | 1,03 | 1,08 | 1,21 |
| 25 | Pseudomonas entomophila L48 | 5.9 | 8,89 | 8,65 | 9,26 |
| 5 | Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655 | 4.6 | 1,43 | 1,43 | 1,40 |
The length of plasmids is considered as well.
454 technology, 150,000 reads (length: 100 bp).
454 technology, 60,000 reads, (length: 250 bp).
Sanger technology, 18,750 reads, (length: 800 bp).