Table 2. Results of VirSorter viral sequence detection on simulated viral metagenomes with a limited contamination by cellular genomes (1 to 25% of raw reads).
Metrics presented are Recall (proportion of viral sequences detected) and Precision (proportion of predictions corresponding to viral sequences).
| VirSorter—categories 1 & 2 | VirSorter—all categories | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recall | Precision | Recall | Precision | |
| All contigs (>500bp) | 31.71% | 99.89% | 32.96% | 99.79% |
| Contigs >3kb | 85.64% | 99.80% | 90.29% | 99.62% |
| Contigs >10kb | 97.14% | 99.48% | 99.82% | 98.99% |