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Table 2 Sinthetic reads compared to DecontaMiner, TruePure and FastQScreen detected reads

From: From trash to treasure: detecting unexpected contamination in unmapped NGS data

 

Simulated data

DecontaMiner

TruePurea

FastQScreenb

 

Read

%

Valid

%

Sequences

%

One hit/one

%

 

counts

 

reads

 

found

 

genome

 

Bacteria

99816

80.28

80527

92.73

975

80.25

13986

86.41

Fungi

2011

1.62

47

0.05

0

0

3

0.02

Viruses

22504

18.1

6263

7.22

240

19.75

2196

13.57

Total

124331

100

86837

100

1215

100

16185

100

  1. aThese are the results on the manually curated input file;
  2. bFor FastQScreen only the hits mapping on a single genome are shown
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