Table 5 Results for the CARMA 454 simulated metagenomic data set (25,000 sequences, 265 bp)
From: A comparative evaluation of sequence classification programs
| Â | actual | CARMA | MEGAN | MetaPhyler | MG-RAST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
percentage of sequence classified | Â | 68.7 | 90.5 | 0.5 | 80.2 |
Proteobacteria | 73.0 | 73.2 | 73.0 | 69.2 | 73.2 |
Firmicutes | 12.9 | 13.2 | 12.8 | 17.3 | 12.9 |
Cyanobacteria | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 6.8 | 7.6 |
Actinobacteria | 5.2 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 5.4 |
Chlamydiae | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 4.5 | 0.9 |
percentage of sequence misclassified | Â | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
correlation coefficient |  | ≈ 1.0 | ≈ 1.0 | ≈ 1.0 | ≈ 1.0 |