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Table 4 Comparison of the performance of MiCoP and MetaPhlAn2 on a mock viral community consisting of 9 species

From: MiCoP: microbial community profiling method for detecting viral and fungal organisms in metagenomic samples

 

Precision

Recall

F1-Score

Reads per minute

MiCoP

0.875

0.77778

0.82353

87629

MetaPhlAn2

1.0

0.11111

0.19999

162845

  1. MetaPhlAn2 only detects 1 of 9 species, with no false positives, while MiCoP detects 7 of 9 species with one false positive, thus profiling the community much more accurately. MetaPhlAn2 processed the reads about twice as fast as MiCoP