Table 3. Relative method performance based on empirical data.

Data set	NJ (liberal)	NJ (strict)	PAR (liberal)	PAR (strict)	NN	BLAST	DNA-BAR	BLOG
Drosophila (118)	83.90	80.51	83.90	80.51	82.20	83.90	83.90	96.61
Inga (172)	91.28	90.12	81.40	80.23	88.37	82.56	94.19	90.12
Cypraeidae (354)	91.53	90.40	85.31	83.90	91.24	92.66	93.22	92.66
Overall	88.90	87.01	83.53	81.55	87.27	86.37	90.43	93.13

DNA barcode query identification success scores (%) of six methods applied to three empirical data sets. NJ  =  neighbor joining, PAR  =  parsimony, NN  =  nearest neighbor (liberal)  =  liberal assessment, (strict)  =  strict assessment. Number of query sequences in each data set is in brackets. Overall success scores (bottom line) are averaged over the three data sets. Highest scores are in boldface.