Skip to main content

Table 2 Varying error rate

From: Clustering metagenomic sequences with interpolated Markov models

Error rate

Recall

Precision

Adj Rand

0.000

0.869

0.810

0.696

0.005

0.852

0.794

0.672

0.010

0.856

0.780

0.665

0.020

0.861

0.782

0.668

  1. In tests with mixtures of ten random genomes in random proportions, sequencing errors lead to decreased accuracy. However, the rate at which accuracy decreases as errors increases is slow so that SCIMM is fairly robust to error rates of 2.0%.
Back to article page

BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

Contact us