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Table 1 Overview of features of MeFiT compared to other popular tools

From: MeFiT: merging and filtering tool for illumina paired-end reads for 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing

  

Merging

Quality Filtering

Single Step

Tool

Merge non-overlapping paired-end reads

AvgQ

Expected Error

MeFiT

✔

CASPER

✔

✔

✔

Qiime v1.9.1

✗

fastq-join/SeqPrep

✗

✔

✗

mothur v1.37

✗

make.contigs

✗

✔

✗

usearch v8.0

✗

fastq_mergepairs

✗

✗

✔