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Table 2 Observed False Negatives for top 5 phyla indexing (as done in Meta-Storms) in the presented database, i.e., the number of sample pairs below a specified threshold though with differing top 5 phyla indices; listed in dependence of various UniFrac thresholds

From: Visibiome: an efficient microbiome search engine based on a scalable, distributed architecture

Weighted UniFrac

Total pairs

Pairs with

Percentage

threshold

below threshold

different keys

 

0.05

28,247

351

1.24

0.10

96,977

1,402

1.45

0.20

846,107

14,993

1.77

0.30

4,847,874

91,902

1.90

  1. Note that this type of error is avoided in our work by the use of GNAT data structures (Analysis Type I)
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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