Discovering the Unknown: Improving Detection of Novel Species and Genera from Short Reads

Table 3

PhymmBL and NBC detector accuracy rates versus coding/noncoding reads (coding includes full and partial coding regions).

PhymmBL				NBC
Method	All	Coding	Noncoding	All	Coding	Noncoding
Species	87.5%	87.8%	79.4%	82.8%	82.7%	83.2%
Genus	72.6%	73.7%	68.2%	57.1%	56.9%	62.4%