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Table 4 Evaluations on real data sets. The microbiome set was clustered with an identity score of 97%. The LTRs set was clustered with an identity score of 70%. The direction of the arrow next to each criterion indicates whether a high or a low value is better

From: MeShClust v3.0: high-quality clustering of DNA sequences using the mean shift algorithm and alignment-free identity scores

Tool

Dunn (↑)

Davies-Bouldin (↓)

Silhouette (↑)

Intra (↑)

Inter (↓)

Cluster quality (↑)

Coverage (↑)

Time (↓)

Memory (GB) (↓)

Microbiome

CD-HIT

0.01

3.39

0.24

0.94

0.94

0.16

0.99

00:01:45

0.93

MeShClust v1.0

0.02

1.50

0.43

0.96

0.90

0.25

0.99

00:05:01

2.56

MeShClust v3.0

0.27

0.77

0.74

0.97

0.90

0.50

0.96

01:41:06

15.08

UCLUST

0.01

5.50

-0.14

0.94

0.96

0.12

0.98

00:00:31

0.42

LTRs

CD-HIT

0.02

1.81

0.05

0.78

0.52

0.29

1.00

03:47:05

0.75

MeShClust v1.0

0.14

1.13

0.33

0.86

0.52

0.51

1.00

00:02:57

1.75

MeShClust v3.0

0.98

0.86

0.47

0.88

0.58

0.79

0.94

02:01:22

16.24

UCLUST

0.02

2.02

0.11

0.75

0.55

0.27

1.00

00:09:01

0.50