Table 2.

The error detection power of the nuID checksum algorithm (N = 21)

L	1-character	2-character	3-character	Random
25mer	0.97780	0.97918	0.98689	0.99924
50mer	0.97724	0.97838	0.98607	0.99997
100mer	0.97894	0.97825	0.98617	1*

L and N are defined in Equation (3) and (4) in Methods. The column "1-character" is the error detection rate of an nuID with only one character mutated. Similar definition for column "2-character" and "3-character". "Random" column is error detection rate of a random ASCII string. The optimum detection power is 1.0.

* We realize the detection of nuIDs for 100mers is not guaranteed, but in none of our simulations did we ever encounter a randomly assembled string that was a valid nuID.