Table 1 Sequences remaining after each bioinformatic filtering step and taxonomic assignment.

From: Environmental DNA reveals that rivers are conveyer belts of biodiversity information

Sample name

Site name

Raw read count

(A) Merged

(B) Quality filter and trim

(C) Mapping

(D) Chimera removal

(E) Taxonomic assignment

Average %±s.d. of identical matches

Average±s.d. reference alignment length

02-01_S12

a

859,156

496,181

389,859

251,400

250,725

32,673

97.7±2.7

204±85

08-01_S18

ab

754,781

479,497

433,506

151,744

151,422

21,989

94.1±2.7

195±77

07-01_S17

b

587,445

368,095

304,991

168,274

167,810

38,316

98.1±2.5

205±81

03-01_S13

c

458,635

294,565

247,769

144,850

144,453

37,659

97.9±2.6

213±85

01-01_S11

cd

770,055

512,041

411,234

176,874

176,231

36,509

94.9±2.8

195±74

04-01_S14

d

664,475

444,870

392,865

187,002

186,445

21,783

96.6±3.2

197±77

05-01_S15

e

673,495

364,002

330,412

172,045

171,389

20,376

95.8±3.4

192±76

06-01_S16

f

1,238,917

740,208

621,210

311,638

310,375

31,035

96.1±3.3

193±76

Total for samples

 

6,006,959

3,699,459

3,131,846

1,563,827

1,558,850

240,340

96.6±3.2

200±80

Mock c ommunity

 

421,868

92,934

82,218

67,983

67,983

57,641

94.0±3.6

300.8±38

  1. Letter in parentheses of columns refer to bioinformatic filtering step with details given in Methods and Supplementary Fig. 1. Assignment statistics are averages across all assignments for each site ±s.d. Alignment length is in base pairs.