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Fig. 4 | Microbiome

Fig. 4

From: IDTAXA: a novel approach for accurate taxonomic classification of microbiome sequences

Fig. 4

Comparison of classifications using human and environmental microbiome data. The number of sequences assigned to each taxonomic group in the RDP training set is shown for full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences originating from two different environments [2]. The RDP Classifier was far more permissive at its default (≥ 80%) confidence than IDTAXA at its default (≥ 60%) confidence. Even at a 100% confidence threshold, the RDP Classifier assigned sequences to many more groups than the IDTAXA algorithm, possibly because of its substantially higher OC error rate. Note that some points may be overlapping, particularly at low numbers of assigned sequences

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