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Table 1 Comparison of the best BLAST hit method and BranchClust algorithm.

From: BranchClust: a phylogenetic algorithm for selecting gene families

Number of taxa – A: Archaea B: Bacteria

Number of selected families:

 

Reciprocal best BLAST hit

BranchClust

2A2B

80

414 (all complete)

13B

236

2066 (369 complete, 1690 with n ≥ 8)

14A

125

1431 (300 complete, 1131 with n ≥ 8)

14B 16A

12

195 (80 complete, 195 with n ≥ 24)