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Table 2 Comparing the average error of Mash, Skmer, and AAF in estimating distances over three datasets with heterogeneous sequencing effort

From: Skmer: assembly-free and alignment-free sample identification using genome skims

Dataset

Mash

Skmer

AAF (uncorrected)

AAF (corrected)

Anopheles

28.72% (1.10%)

0.84% (0.03%)

13.48% (0.56%)

11.36% (0.44%)

Drosophila

29.05% (0.59%)

0.84% (0.04%)

15.25% (0.38%)

10.94% (0.33%)

Birds

64.29% (0.54%)

2.21% (0.04%)

36.02% (0.29%)

5.28% (0.16%)

  1. The standard error of the mean is provided in parentheses. Italics: the lowest error