show Abstracthide AbstractThe goal is to evaluate different metagenomic binning methods with a mock community with background truth. Among the eight species, four are Bacteroides. The sequences were assembled from a "mock" community consisting of reads combined from 8 separate sequencing runs of individual isolates: Escherichia coli MG1655, Bacteroides caccae ATCC 43185, Bacteroides ovatus ATCC 8483, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron VPI-5482, Bacteroides vulgatus ATCC 8492, Collinsella aerofaciens ATCC 25986, Clostridium bolteae ATCC BAA-613, and Ruminococcus gnavus ATCC 29149. Reads from all 8 species were first combined, then assembled as a single set of reads.