Table 1Bioinformatic analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data from samples containing serial dilutions of herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) and human immunodefi-ciency virus (HIV)VirusHIVHSV-1Viral copy number (per reaction)101102103104101102103104All reads28,061,486 25,451,203 38,824,869 38,445,87129,427,549 35,563,729 37,265,05333,590,050Reads after trimming27,521,179 25,130,211 38,030,780 38,059,03828,167,940 34,159,264 35,710,63832,195,105Human26,790,866 23,491,647 37,058,865 36,195,65926,490,780 33,227,773 32,660,53631,208,000(97.35 %)(93.48 %)(97.44 %)(95.10 %)(94.05 %)(97.27 %)(91.46 %)(96.93 %)Viral245220359860235,243113,08114,679908,56634,657(0.01 %)(0.01 %)(0.03 %)(0.62 %)(0.40 %)(0.04 %)(2.54 %)(0.11)Bacterial285,5191,039,411409,000574,8361,040,489552,0501,123,961294,172(1.04 %)(4.14 %)(1.08 %)(1.51 %)(3.69 %)(1.62 %)(3.15 %)(0.91 %)Fungal41,242111,57192,310118,43848,50626,304141,35852,367(0.15 %)(0.26 %)(0.24 %)(0.31 %)(0.17 %)(0.08 %)(0.40 %)(0.16 %)Archeal1551355501351819252(0.00 %)(0.00 %)(0.00 %)(0.00 %)(0.00 %)(0.00 %)(0.00 %)(0.00 %)Protozoan27,37338,22337,60860,62722,47614,057102,68394,557(0.10 %)(0.15 %)(0.10 %)(0.16 %)(0.08 %)(0.04 %)(0.29 %)(0.29 %)Othera155,230188,205183,186385,748194,950143,329453,406270,508(0.56 %)(0.75 %)(0.48 %)(1.01 %)(0.69 %)(0.42 %)(1.27 %)(0.84 %)No match218,342259,106239,896487,986257,623181,054319,936240,792(0.79 %)(1.03 %)(0.63 %)(1.28 %)(0.91 %)(0.53 %)(0.90 %)(0.75 %)Identified viruses (number of reads)0HIV (1501) HIV (8731) HIV (226,290) 00HSV-1 (1151) HSV-1 (8989)0.006 %b0.022 %b0.590 %b0.003 %b0.028 %bViral genome coverage030.0 %90.2 %97.0 %003.6 %13.0 %Sequences were compared to the NCBI-nt databaseaSequences related to plants, plant viruses, and synthetic constructsbPercentage of all reads after trimmingSensitivity of Next-Generation Sequencing Metagenomic Analysis for Detection... 57