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Fig. 7 | BMC Genomics

Fig. 7

From: UMGAP: the Unipept MetaGenomics Analysis Pipeline

Fig. 7

Lowest common ancestor (LCA), LCA*, hybrid f and maximum root-to-leaf (MRTL) are four heuristics that determine a consensus taxon for a given list of taxa. All heuristics map the list of taxa onto the NCBI Taxonomy tree, that guides the heuristic towards a consensus taxon. MRTL is the most progressive heuristic and LCA* is the most conservative heuristic, so the MRTL consensus will be deeper in the tree than the LCA* consensus. The hybrid f heuristic has a parameter f that can be tweaked to yield a result that is either more towards the LCA* consensus or the MRTL consensus

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BMC Genomics

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