Simulated benchmark metagenome used to demonstrate and evaluate MGLEX software

<p>This is a mock dataset of 120 000 artificial contigs of 1 kb length derived by simulating reads from 295 unique genomes and 44 species with each two or three strain genomes using the ART read simulator (Huang et al., 2012) and a lognormal abundance distribution. Genomes were chosen according to the CAMI2015 (www.cami-challenge.org) medium complexity toy dataset.  The dataset contains four replicate samples with varied abundances and corresponding sequence feature files in MGLEX v0.1.1 format to use for genome reconstruction. Our aim was to create a benchmark dataset under controlled settings, minimizing potential biases introduced by specific software. This package also includes MGLEX benchmark scripts.</p>