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Table 1 Results of the GCAT experiment (data coming from GCAT website).

From: Fast randomized approximate string matching with succinct hash data structures

Tool

Total Reads

Correct

Incorrect

Unmapped

BW-ERNE

11,945,249

97.30%

2.311%

0.3900%

Bowtie2

11,945,249

93.52%

5.284%

1.192%

Novoalign

11,945,249

97.47%

0.08329%

2.445%

Novoalign3

11,945,249

97.47%

0.08300%

2.442%

BWA

11,945,249

93.91%

1.707%

4.385%

BWA-SW

11,971,702

94.29%

4.139%

1.576%

BWA-MEM

11,951,583

97.47%

2.515%

0.01361%

  1. BW-ERNE ranks among the most precise tools, correctly aligning a number of reads comparable to that of slower aligners such as Novoalign.