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Table 2 Description of each quality metric color-rank scheme

From: SEAseq: a portable and cloud-based chromatin occupancy analysis suite

Quality metrics

Rank

Excellent

Good

Average

Below-average

Poor

Aligned percent (\(A\))

\(A \ge 80\%\)

\(A \ge 70\%\)

\(A \ge 60\%\)

\(A \ge 50\%\)

\(A < 50\%\)

Base quality (\(B\))

B = “pass”

-

B = “warn”

-

B = “fail”

Estimated fragment width

Estimated tag length (E)a

\(E < \pm 10\)

\(E > \pm 10\)

FRiP (\(F\))c

\(F \ge 0.05\)

\(F \ge 0.02\)

\(F \ge 0.01\)

\(F \ge 0.0075\)

\(F < 0.0075\)

Linear stitched peaks (\(L\))

\(L \ge 10000\)

\(L \ge 5000\)

\(L \ge 2000\)

\(L \ge 1000\)

\(L < 1000\)

NRF

\(NRF \ge 0.8\)

\(NRF \ge 0.7\)

\(NRF \ge 0.6\)

\(NRF \ge 0.5\)

\(NRF < 0.5\)

Normalized Peaks (N)

\(N \ge 10000\)

\(N \ge 5000\)

\(N \ge 2000\)

\(N \ge 1000\)

\(N < 1000\)

NSCc

\(NSC \ge 1.045\)

\(NSC < 1.045\)

Sequence diversity (\(D\))

D = “pass”

D = “warn”

D = “fail”

PBC (\(C\))c

\(C \ge 0.9\)

\(C \ge 0.75\)

\(C \ge 0.66\)

\(C \ge 0.5\)

\(C < 0.5\)

Peaks (\(P\))

\(P \ge 10000\)

\(P \ge 5000\)

\(P \ge 2000\)

\(P \ge 1000\)

\(P < 1000\)

Raw reads (\(R\))

\(R \ge 30 M\)

\(R \ge 25 M\)

\(R \ge 20 M\)

\(R \ge 15 M\)

\(R < 15 M\)

Read length

RSCc

\(RSC \ge 1\)

\(RSC \ge 0.75\)

\(RSC < 0.75\)

Super stitched peaks (\(S\))b

\(S \ge 0.2\)

\(S \ge 0.1\)

\(S \ge 0.05\)

\(S \ge 0.02\)

\(S < 0.02\)

Overall quality (Q)

\(Q \ge 2\)

\(Q \ge 1\)

\(Q \ge 0\)

\(Q \ge - 1\)

\(Q < - 1\)

  1. M millionreads
  2. aE is difference between predicted tag length and average read length
  3. bS is the ratio of superstitched regions divided by the linear stitched regions identified
  4. cExtrapolated based on ENCODE recommended thresholds