Table 1 Total number of pyrosequencing sequences after quality control and chimera screening.

From: Second-generation environmental sequencing unmasks marine metazoan biodiversity

Samples

Prestwick

LH

Totals

Sample

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

1

 

QC tag reads

27,206

23,877

21,042

19,031

49,476

39,054

35,794

54,227

35,995

305,702

Chimera check reads

13,758

14,774

13,534

12,856

42,741

23,932

29,641

40,234

25,751

217,221

  1. Data are shown for reads passing the initial quality trimming, tag matching and size culling steps (QC tag reads) and reads underpinning OCTUs that were estimated to be non-chimeric (Chimera check reads) from the Prestwick and Littlehampton (LH) sample sites.
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