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Table 4 Comparison of RIEMS and EBI metagenomics results

From: RIEMS: a software pipeline for sensitive and comprehensive taxonomic classification of reads from metagenomics datasets

   

Assignments by

 

16S rRNA reads comprised

RIEMS

EBI Metagenomics

Class

absolute

%

Reads detected

Deviation (basis point)

OTUs detected

Deviation (basis point)

absolute

%

absolute

%

Bacilli

387

79.3

386

79.1

0.2

27

33.3

46.0

Clostridia

51

10.5

51

10.5

0.0

8

9.9

0.6

Unknown firmicutes

-

-

-

-

-

2

2.5

2.5

Alphaproteobacteria

-

-

-

-

-

3

3.7

3.7

Betaproteobacteria

50

10.3

51

10.5

0.2

8

9.9

0.4

Unknown proteobacteria

-

-

-

-

-

2

2.5

2.5

Unknown bacteria

-

-

-

-

-

30

37.0

37.0

Assigned

  

488

100

 

80

98.7

 

Unassigned

-

 

0

0.0

 

1

1.3

 

Total

488

100.0

488

100

 

81

100

 
  1. For this comparison a data subset of 488 16S rRNA sequences comprised in the simulated sequencing dataset was used. The deviation is presented in basis point between the percentage of the respective assignments and the percentage in the original dataset.
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