Finally, single molecule amplification using micPCR actually prevented the generation of chimeric products, due to the fact that we found an increase in chimeric sequences in the micPCR/NGS as the amount of template DNA molecules in PCR amplification reactions was increased (Supplementary Table 1). Importantly, the total template DNA molecules in a micelle PCR/NGS protocol should be kept below 10% of total micelle count to avoid any detectable chimera formation due to individual micelles hosting more than one template molecule. Therefore, the final numbers of target DNA molecules have to be carefully adjusted for each micPCR/NGS project to balance reaction yield and reaction specificity according to the experimental requirements.