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Table 3 Sensitivity and specificity of the FosBin tool with real coverage and simulated coverage levels

From: A-GAME: improving the assembly of pooled functional metagenomics sequence data

  

Real coverage

Simulated coverage

N° of fosmidsa

N° of fragmentsb

Sensitivity

Specificity

Sensitivity

Specificity

8

2

0.748

0.874

0.808

0.904

8

3

0.766

0.922

0.822

0.941

8

5

0.713

0.943

0.779

0.956

12

2

0.717

0.858

0.782

0.891

12

3

0.726

0.909

0.790

0.930

12

5

0.701

0.940

0.769

0.954

18

2

0.656

0.828

0.730

0.865

18

3

0.635

0.878

0.711

0.904

18

5

0.589

0.918

0.670

0.934

  1. aNumber of inserts included in the simulated pool
  2. bNumber of distinct fragments generated from each insert