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Table 3 Average alignment SP-error and tree error across fragmentary datasets

From: Ultra-large alignments using phylogeny-aware profiles

Method

ROSE NT

RNASim 10K

Indelible 10K

CRW

    

(16S.3 and 16S.T)

Average alignment SP-error

UPP

8.3 (1)

11.8 (1)

2.7 (1)

16.1 (1)

PASTA

25.2 (2)

47.7 (4)

8.8 (2)

23.3 (2)

MAFFT

32.5 (3)

25.5 (2)

51.3 (3)

24.5 (3)

Muscle

35.3 (4)

82.2 (5)

77.6 (4)

70.6 (5)

Clustal

62.0 (5)

35.0 (3)

X

46.7 (4)

Average ΔFN error

UPP

1.9 (1)

3.1 (1)

2.5 (1)

7.4 (2)

PASTA

25.2 (3)

21.9 (3)

9.0 (2)

8.2 (2)

MAFFT

18.0 (2)

6.2 (2)

35.6 (3)

2.5 (1)

Muscle

27.5 (4)

43.6 (5)

45.2 (4)

30.1 (3)

Clustal

47.8 (5)

26.3 (4)

X

37.4 (4)

  1. We report the average alignment error (top) and average ΔFN error (bottom) on the collection of fragmentary datasets. Clustal-Omega failed to align any of the Indelible 10000M2 fragmentary datasets and thus we mark the results with an X. The tier ranking for each method is shown in parentheses