Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Table 1 Performance of our method and the Velvet-based approach on pairs of genomes with different phylogenetic distances

From: Separating metagenomic short reads into genomes via clustering

		# of genomes	# of pairs	Broken	Separated	Sensitivity		Precision
						Mean	Stdv	Mean	Stdv
Species	TOSS	229	184	3	83	90.38	8.71	95.55	5.96
	Velvet	229	156	22	51	84.11	12.70	92.25	7.88
Genus	TOSS	171	147	2	113	93.40	9.39	97.07	5.52
	Velvet	171	123	15	77	89.96	12.97	94.95	8.45
Family	TOSS	80	79	2	75	94.98	6.56	97.46	5.86
	Velvet	80	78	2	71	91.90	8.90	97.25	4.16
Order	TOSS	35	71	0	70	95.14	4.87	97.79	2.49
	Velvet	35	71	0	69	95.79	4.17	98.77	1.69

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