Genome sequence-based species delimitation with confidence intervals and improved distance functions

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Preselection of well-performing GBDP methods from the correlation analysis

Juxtaposition of DDH correlation values for best-performing GBDP methods as well as (i) ANI [6] and (ii) JSpecies[7] implementation (ANIm, ANIb, Tetra). The content of the respective data sets DS1-DS4 is described in Materials and Methods, whereas the full table with all correlation results is found in Additional file 4. For convenience, the correlation coefficients’ sign of the ANI values is inverted to allow for the direct comparison toward GBDP (-1 is the optimal value). Abbreviations used: WL (wordlength) and MR (mumreference). The listed BLAT runs were all conducted under the same settings (minScore=30, minIdentity=90, tileSize=12). GBDP-based correlations surpass any of the ANI implementations throughout the respective data sets.

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