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Table 18 The number of unique k-mers in the class-level databases extracted from the primary dataset (for k=24) after filtering infrequent k-mers (with ci=4) from (i) sample-level databases and (ii) class-level databases

From: Environmental metagenome classification for constructing a microbiome fingerprint

Class name

Class-level filtering

Sample-level filtering

Chile, Santiago

3,330,241,847

1,947,678,404

Japan, Tokyo

6,179,603,359

3,436,570,406

New Zealand, Auckland

586,168,771

567,504,772

New Zealand, Hamilton

897,549,433

845,417,208

Nigeria, Offa

3,293,428,857

2,833,690,965

Portugal, Porto

3,793,750,265

3,108,855,323

USA, New York

7,413,034,106

4,252,342,215

USA, Sacramento

2,413,540,643

599,036,464