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Table 2 Sequencing metrics of selected food commodity and enrichment culture sample data generated using whole-metagenome shotgun and bait-capture approaches

From: Exploiting a targeted resistome sequencing approach in assessing antimicrobial resistance in retail foods

Sample annotation

Sample type

Metagenomics sequencing method1

Number of raw read (million)

Number of pass quality-filter read (million)

Number of read retained after dehosting (million)

Number of on-target read2 (million)

Non-host read percentage

On-target rate3

B 5

Ground Beef

SH

101.6

97.1

3.2

0.003

3.3%

0.1%

  

T

23.0

21.7

2.2

1.4

10.2%

62.8%

 

Ground Beef (enrichment)

SH

66.1

62.2

49.8

0.1

80.0%

0.1%

  

T

19.6

17.8

17.7

8.7

99.6%

48.9%

B 3

Ground Beef

SH

86.7

82.8

7.1

0.01

8.6%

0.2%

  

T

16.6

16.0

2.8

1.6

17.4%

58.5%

 

Ground Beef (enrichment)

SH

90.7

86.8

64.2

0.1

73.9%

0.1%

  

T

17.9

16.6

16.6

8.3

99.7%

50.0%

C 1

Ground Chicken (enrichment)

SH

84.6

81.3

66.0

0.2

81.1%

0.3%

  

T

25.4

23.6

22.5

13.6

95.1%

60.5%

P 3

Ground Pork

SH

100.8

96.2

50.4

0.03

52.4%

0.1%

  

T

28.0

25.2

18.0

8.6

71.4%

47.6%

 

Ground Pork (enrichment)

SH

81.3

78.1

61.8

0.1

79.1%

0.1%

  

T

33.3

29.9

29.9

14.2

99.9%

47.7%

P 2

Ground Pork (enrichment)

SH

83.7

80.3

61.6

0.2

76.7%

0.3%

  

T

29.0

27.1

26.3

14.2

97.1%

54.1%

T 1

Ground Turkey (enrichment)

SH

70.0

58.3

58.2

0.1

99.9%

0.1%

  

T

31.4

29.4

29.3

16.8

99.7%

57.5%

AS 2

Alfalfa sprouts

SH

89.9

83.8

78.4

0.1

93.5%

0.2%

  

T

21.1

19.4

19.3

3.3

99.7%

17.0%

 

Alfalfa sprouts (enrichment)

SH

82.1

65.8

65.8

0.1

100.0%

0.2%

  

T

29.4

26.9

26.9

15.0

100.0%

56.0%

MBS 1

Mung bean sprouts

SH

64.4

42.7

42.2

0.003

98.7%

0.01%

  

T

11.9

11.3

10.9

0.7

96.0%

6.1%

 

Mung bean sprouts (enrichment)

SH

69.7

57.8

57.7

0.1

100.0%

0.2%

  

T

27.7

25.7

25.6

14.3

99.9%

55.8%

MBS 3

Mung bean sprouts

SH

63.2

52.5

49.6

0.01

94.4%

0.02%

  

T

12.6

12.2

10.8

1.6

88.4%

14.4%

 

Mung bean sprouts (enrichment)

SH

69.6

56.7

56.7

0.1

100.0%

0.1%

  

T

32.4

29.8

29.7

16.6

99.9%

56.0%

  1. 1SH, Whole-metagenome shotgun; T, Targeted bait-capture
  2. 2On-target read refers to sequence read that can be mapped onto at least one of the target sequences
  3. 3On-target rate is defined as percentage of the non-host reads that is on-target