Table 1 Classification of supervised taxonomic assignment approaches

Rank-specific

Best BLAST match [12]

NN (this paper)

NB [18], Phymm [17]

NB-BL (this paper)

PhymmBL [17]

Rank-flexible

LCA [11], MTR [13]

q-LCA [14]

Treephyler [15]

CARMA [16]

ε-NB (this paper)

PhyloPythia [25]

PhyloPythiaS [26]

TACOA [27]

BLASTN + NB (this paper)

BLASTN + ε-NB (this paper)

LCA + NB (this paper)

LCA + ε-NB (this paper)