Table 1

Benchmarking of the taxonomic assignment method for 1000 random sequences taken from complete genomes.

Tax rank
ORFs
Predictions
Same
Different
Contigs
Predictions
Same
Different

class
3264
2281
2271
10
996
694
692
2
order
3264
2099
2072
27
996
638
629
9
family
3264
1833
1791
42
996
553
539
14

Assignments were done at three different taxonomic depths (class, order and family). The table shows the number of predictions carried out, and how many of these match the original taxon, both for ORFs and contigs. The homology searches for four contigs did not provide any hits and were, therefore, not considered

Tamames and Moya BMC Genomics 2008 9:136   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-136