What are 'unassigned' hits?

[vmkalbskopf]

I have quite a few results in my tree that are "unassigned Eukaryota (13)" or "unassigned Plasmodium (1168)" for instance. How should I interpret this?

[adamthrash]

When a hit is assigned to a node, the coverage of that node's ancestors is incremented as well. For example, a hit that is assigned to H. sapiens will increase the coverage of H. sapiens, Homo, Hominidae, etc., all the way up through the root node.

Unassigned hits represent the difference in coverage from hits assigned to the node's children and hits assigned directly to the node. For example, if the node Homo had 15 hits via having 10 hits to H. sapiens and 5 hits assigned directly to Homo, then Keanu would display this node as "Unassigned Homo (5)".

This way of naming indicating hits assigned directly to a non-species node might not be the clearest, so I'll leave this issue open to indicate the need for a fix.