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Table 9 The percentage of cases where STC is at least as good as other tested methods in terms of RF distance. The number in parentheses is the percentage of cases where STC is equally good as other tested methods. Methods are used without BNNI.

From: Shortest triplet clustering: reconstructing large phylogenies using representative sets

number sequences

NJ

BIONJ

Weighbor

HGT/FP

GME

BME

96 (500 nt)

68 (16)

65 (15)

57 (16)

100 (0)

73 (10)

70 (14)

500 (500 nt)

80 (4)

76 (4)

88 (3)

100 (0)

100 (0)

66 (1)

500 (1000 nt)

88 (3)

79 (4)

84 (4)

100 (0)

100 (0)

83 (6)

500 (2000 nt)

92 (6)

90 (4)

92 (3)

100 (0)

100 (0)

86 (9)

1000 (1000 nt)

95 (2)

95 (1)

n.d.

100 (0)

100 (0)

89 (15)

5000 (1000 nt)

100 (0)

99 (0)

n.d.

100 (0)

100 (0)

95 (1)