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. 2014 Jan 9;30(9):1214–1219. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu010

Table 2.

Accuracy comparison

Ibis Test
B.pertussis
PhiX174 (AYB)
Perfect reads Error rate (%) Perfect reads Error rate (%) Perfect reads Error rate (%)
Bustard 99 834 1.45 1 557 963 2.01 24 478 0.49
AYB 133 537 0.73 2 304 005 1.26 26 878 0.38
BlindCall slow 110 951 1.12 1 902 621 1.61 25 144 0.45
BlindCall fast 105 312 1.26 1 856 286 1.66 24 740 0.47
Time Slow 0.08/0.3/1 0.11/6/10 0.15/14/22
Fast 0.08/0.1/1 0.11/3/8 0.15/7/16

Accuracy for Bustard, AYB and BlindCall on various datasets. BlindCall was able to produce comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art base callers at significantly faster computational time. All methods improve on Bustard base calls. Run times for BlindCall are reported as (training time/processing time/total time in minutes) where the total time includes reading intensity data from disk and writing base-calls to disk.