Fictional example of how five plasmids sorted by match-score Z would be separated into the two levels of precision: ‘Significant match-score’ and ‘passed resampling test’.

In this table five imaginary plasmids have been sorted by match-score Z. The top 4 plasmids are found to have Pdual ≤ 0.01, i.e., these plasmids are deemed to have statistically significant match scores. However, only the top 2 plasmids are considered to pass the resampling test, where a 3-σZ rule is used to exclude any plasmid where the difference in match-score, compared to the top case, is deemed to be too large.