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Table 2 Evaluation of TaxMapper. Comparison of area under the ROC curve (AUC) and accuracy (ACC) for the E-value cutoff (test data) and TaxMapper on test, holdout and random data. The cutoffs leading to the best results in ACC and a false positive rate below 0.1 are shown below

From: TaxMapper: an analysis tool, reference database and workflow for metatranscriptome analysis of eukaryotic microorganisms

Method

Simple E-value cutoff

TaxMapper test

TaxMapper holdout

TaxMapper random

AUC

0.84

0.91

0.90

NA

ACC

0.79

0.84

0.84

1.00

Cutoff for best ACC

-0.92

0.38

0.40

1.00

Cutoff for FPR < 0.1

1.66

0.58

0.58

0.29