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Table 1 Varying read length

From: Clustering metagenomic sequences with interpolated Markov models

Length

Genomes

Recall

Precision

Adj Rand

400

5

0.858

0.863

0.689

800

5

0.905

0.886

0.768

1600

5

0.936

0.905

0.817

400

10

0.801

0.756

0.606

800

10

0.869

0.810

0.696

1600

10

0.911

0.821

0.738

  1. In tests with mixtures of five and ten random genomes in random proportions, increasing read length leads to greater accuracy. Even with 400 bp reads, the clusters are accurate enough to be useful for some applications.
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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