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Method	Approach	Reference	Primary result	Secondary result
cgMLST	Alignment to scheme of core genes	Set of allele sequences for set of core genes	Allele distance matrix	Minimum-spanning tree
wgMLST	Alignment to scheme of core and accessory genes	Set of allele sequences for set of core and accessory genes	Allele distance matrix	Minimum-spanning tree
SNP	Mapping to reference	Closely related reference genome	Core SNP alignment, SNP distance matrix	Neighbor-joining tree
Maximum- likelihood tree
split K-mer based SNP detection	Pairwise K-mer comparison	No reference	Core SNP alignment, SNP distance matrix	Neighbor-joining tree
MinHash	Pairwise MinHash comparison and clustering	No reference	MinHash distances, clustering information	Neighbor-joining tree