Table 3 A small selection of tunable parameters used to produce the final dataset.
Parameter/s | Description | Published value |
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OGT threshold | Binary threshold to split organisms into mesophiles and thermophiles. | 40.0 °C |
16s alignment coverage | Minimum alignment coverage (both strands) of 16s rRNA sequence to be considered a taxa pair | 98.5% |
16s alignment % id | Minimum alignment gap compressed percent identity of 16s rRNA sequence to be considered a taxa pair | 81% |
protein alignment coverage | Minimum alignment coverage (both strands) of protein sequence to be considered a protein pair | 75% |
protein alignment E values | Maximum E value of protein alignment to be considered a protein pair | 1e-4 |