Distribution of Gene Copies for Simulation
| Cluster size | ||||||
| 1 | 2–5 | 6–10 | 11–100 | >100 | total | |
| No. of cluster | 500 | 144 | 21 | 16 | 17 | 698 |
| No. of clones | 500 | 388 | 156 | 381 | 4884 | 6309 |
| Percent of sample | 7.93 | 6.15 | 2.47 | 6.03 | 77.41 | 100 |
[i] A total of 665 out of 698 genes are assigned a copy rate <11 (including 500 singletons) corresponding to a total number of 1044 clones; 17 genes get a copy rate >100 by a random number between 100 and 500. The biggest of our simulated cluster has a copy rate of 491 clones.