output file units

[pdhrati02]

Hi, I am using abricate on metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs). I used abricate with default parameters, specifying just the input, output and database to use.

In the end, I combined all results using cat and pivoted them in excel to get a table for example with samples as rows, gene names as columns and abundance value throughout.

My question is that what are these values that abricate actually provides? What is the unit for these? Are these gene counts per sample (MAG in this case) or average gene count? Or what would be the unit basically?

Any help would be appreciated

Thank you DP