Table 2.

Prediction specificities for different fragment lengths

Prediction method	hmm_fs			BLASTN
Length of reads	5S	16S	23S	5S	16S	23S
100	88.6	92.7	94.5	92.8	91.5	94.8
200	90.4	91.2	94.0	93.0	88.1	94.6
300	91.7	93.5	94.4	94.9	86.9	94.8
400	92.3	95.4	94.3	94.2	88.6	94.9
500	93.7	91.9	93.3	95.0	84.4	94.1
600	92.0	91.4	94.2	94.1	86.5	94.6
700	93.9	91.0	94.9	95.6	85.5	95.6
800	92.6	89.6	94.5	94.1	82.3	94.9

Here, hmm_fs represents our algorithm. Specificities are represented in percentage (%).