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Table 6 Validation of Results: Precision and Recall.

From: Flexible taxonomic assignment of ambiguous sequencing reads

	full 16S rRNA						V1-V2 region
	100 bp		150 bp		200 bp		100 bp		150 bp		200 bp
q	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r
0.0	0.1827	0.1827	0.2503	0.2503	0.3038	0.3038	0.3085	0.3085	0.3553	0.3553	0.4021	0.4021
0.1	0.1820	0.4416	0.2480	0.4296	0.3003	0.4252	0.3059	0.4246	0.3530	0.4194	0.4085	0.4536
0.2	0.1791	0.5165	0.2448	0.4920	0.2954	0.4793	0.3026	0.4819	0.3502	0.4644	0.4119	0.4948
0.3	0.1742	0.5773	0.2401	0.5551	0.2863	0.5367	0.2960	0.5319	0.3453	0.5071	0.4012	0.5464
0.4	0.1677	0.6343	0.2314	0.6205	0.2752	0.5996	0.2873	0.5924	0.3394	0.5688	0.3741	0.6020
0.5	0.1633	0.6653	0.2262	0.6500	0.2707	0.6322	0.2816	0.6205	0.3326	0.5939	0.3558	0.6224
0.6	0.1548	0.7054	0.2147	0.6938	0.2586	0.6779	0.2687	0.6666	0.3198	0.6417	0.3427	0.6633
0.7	0.1436	0.7483	0.2001	0.7393	0.2399	0.7295	0.2476	0.7156	0.2924	0.7000	0.3343	0.7143
0.8	0.1284	0.7941	0.1767	0.7898	0.2123	0.7909	0.2189	0.7718	0.2571	0.7620	0.3108	0.7551
0.9	0.1081	0.8519	0.1465	0.8506	0.1735	0.8544	0.1815	0.8383	0.2146	0.8366	0.2480	0.8367
1.0	0.0532	0.9628	0.0719	0.9700	0.0818	0.9788	0.0807	0.9726	0.0893	0.9788	0.1084	0.9700

Precision (p) and recall (r) for each value of q in simulations using the full-length 16S rRNA sequence and the V1-V2 hypervariable region (right) for reads of 100, 150, and 200 bp.

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