Fig. 3
From: Skmer: assembly-free and alignment-free sample identification using genome skims
Comparing the accuracy of Mash and Skmer on pairs of insects (a) and birds (b) genomes. Genome skims are simulated at coverage \(\frac {1}{8}\times \) to 8 × (shades of blue). The estimated distance (y-axis) is plotted for Mash (left) and Skmer (right) for each pair of species (x-axis). The results of Mash* run on assemblies, which is taken as the ground truth, is shown in red. Mash overestimates at lower coverages. Skmer estimates are closer to the ground truth and are less sensitive to the coverage. See also Additional file 1: Figure S5