Table 3.

Species delimitation accuracy (measured in NMI) on simulated evenly sampled data using the EPA-PTP pipeline

NMI	b′						Mean (variance)
	5	10	20	40	80	160
1000 bp
Full ref.	0.989	0.978	0.962	0.933	0.884	0.836	0.930 (0.003)
90% ref.	0.984	0.972	0.955	0.925	0.876	0.830	0.923 (0.003)
80% ref.	0.976	0.966	0.949	0.921	0.872	0.823	0.917 (0.003)
70% ref.	0.971	0.959	0.943	0.912	0.868	0.816	0.911 (0.003)
60% ref.	0.966	0.956	0.939	0.908	0.860	0.805	0.905 (0.003)
50% ref.	0.962	0.950	0.934	0.904	0.853	0.787	0.898 (0.004)
250 bp
Full ref.	0.978	0.968	0.949	0.918	0.863	0.811	0.914 (0.004)
90% ref.	0.967	0.955	0.935	0.907	0.854	0.800	0.903 (0.004)
80% ref.	0.956	0.944	0.926	0.895	0.846	0.786	0.892 (0.004)
70% ref.	0.942	0.926	0.912	0.880	0.830	0.773	0.877 (0.004)
60% ref.	0.927	0.911	0.893	0.861	0.813	0.755	0.860 (0.004)
50% ref.	0.909	0.891	0.871	0.838	0.784	0.732	0.837 (0.004)

Note: ref. indicates reference sequences