BMC Bioinformatics

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Comparative performances of DNA barcoding across insect orders

Massimiliano Virgilio1,2*, Thierry Backeljau2,3, Bruno Nevado2 and Marc De Meyer1

Author Affiliations

1 Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080, Tervuren, Belgium

2 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

3 Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium

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BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:206 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-206

Published: 27 April 2010

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Summary of simulations on Dataset A.

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Summary of simulations on Dataset B.

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Dataset A. Accession numbers and alignment of 15,948 DNA barcodes (>550 bp) belonging to 1,995 insect species, each represented by at least two sequences.

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Dataset B. Accession numbers and alignment of 14,254 DNA barcodes (>550 bp) belonging to 1,148 insect species, each represented by at least three sequences.

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TreeCode.1.0. Perl script developed to quantify the proportion of correctly identified queries according to the NJT criterion.

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