Fig. 5

A Evaluation of softcore genome definition across different number of genomes. The CD-HIT and ProteinOrtho methods give the same or very similar results and, therefore, the lines overlap. The evaluation is performed for three definitions of the softcore genome, i.e., 92, 95, and 98%. B, C The mean and standard deviation of the Jaccard similarity index comparing the softcore genome at a specific number of genomes from the total set of genomes (i.e., 1324 genomes). The high mean Jaccard similarity index together with a low standard deviation suggests the stability and consistency of the softcore genome at different definition levels. The vertical black dashed line marks the number of genomes equal to 100