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Table 2 Average taxonomic classification performance by counting schemea

From: A fast and robust protocol for metataxonomic analysis using RNAseq data

Counting Scheme

Bacteria

Bacteria

Fungi

Fungi

Virus

Species level

Genus level

Species level

Genus level

First taxon level

TPR

FDR

TPR

FDR

TPR

FDR

TPR

FDR

TPR

FDR

Unique count >0

0.77 ± 0.12

0.45 ± 0.20

0.84 ± 0.13

0.20 ± 0.19

0.88 ± 0.11

0.62 ± 0.26

0.92 ± 0.08

0.56 ± 0.26

0.97 ± 0.10

0.07 ± 0.09

IMSA count >0

0.78 ± 0.11

0.79 ± 0.16

0.84 ± 0.12

0.58 ± 0.20

0.88 ± 0.11

0.70 ± 0.21

0.92 ± 0.08

0.64 ± 0.23

0.97 ± 0.10

0.14 ± 0.20

p value

0.376

<0.001

0.620

<0.001

0.985

0.106

0.971

0.178

1.000

0.126

  1. TPR and FDR are averaged across all 36 experiments (see Additional file 2: Table S1 and Additional file 3: Table S2 for details), statistically significant results highlighted in italics