Fig. 6

Impact of 1% filtering threshold for predicted lowest-abundance species on the performance of benchmarked profilers. Bar plot showing weighted sum of ranks (wsr) of scores without and with filtering out of the 1% least abundant species. Colors in the bars highlight the contribution of each metric to the final wsr. Taxonomic profiling pipelines are sorted from the lowest (best) to the highest (worst) wsr. The heatmap represents the wsr obtained with and without filtering out of the 1% least abundant species for each taxonomic profiler per group of benchmarking datasets (A). Bar plot showing the difference in wsr obtained with and without filtering out of the 1% least abundant species. The color and orientation of the bars illustrate the directionality of the difference (B). Scatter plots of weighted UniFrac scores versus F1 scores (C) or purity (precision) versus completeness (recall) (D) for each benchmarked taxonomic profiler and dataset group. Each dot corresponds to the mean of scores obtained for a group of sample datasets. The color and shape of each dot are associated with a taxonomic profiler pipeline