Table 4 Results for the MetaPhyler simulated metagenomic data set (73,086 sequences, 300 bp)
From: A comparative evaluation of sequence classification programs
| Â | actual | CARMA | MEGAN | MetaPhyler | MG-RAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
percentage of sequence classified | Â | 93.6 | 88.2 | 80.9 | 29.8 |
Proteobacteria | 47.0 | 47.6 | 44.5 | 48.3 | 46.7 |
Firmicutes | 21.9 | 22.2 | 24.0 | 21.8 | 23.1 |
Actinobacteria | 9.7 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 9.1 | 9.3 |
Bacteroidetes | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
Cyanobacteria | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
Tenericutes | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
Spirochaetes | 1.9 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
Chlamydiae | 1.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
Thermotogae | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
Chlorobi | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
percentage of sequence misclassified | Â | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
correlation coefficient |  | ≈ 1.0 | ≈ 1.0 | ≈ 1.0 | ≈ 1.0 |