Table 2.

Real datasets used for the evaluation of EC tools

Abbr.	Organism	Reference ID	Genome size	Cov.	Sequencing platform	Read length	Trimmed reads	Dataset ID	Ref.
D1	Bifidobacterium dentium	Nc013714.1	2.6 Mbp	373 X	Illumina MiSeq	251 bp		SRR1151311	[23]
D2	Escherichia coli K-12 DH10B	NC010473	4.5 Mbp	418 X	Illumina MiSeq	150 bp		Ill. Data library	[10]
D3	Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655	NC000913	4.5 Mbp	612 X	Illumina GAII	100 bp		ERA000206	[10]
D4	Salmonella enterica	NC011083.1	4.7 Mbp	97 X	Illumina MiSeq	239 bp	$✓$	SRR1206093	[23]
D5	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	ERR330008	6.1 Mbp	169 X	Illumina MiSeq	120 bp	$✓$	ERR330008	[10]
D6	Homo sapiens Chr. 21	HG19	45.2 Mbp	29 X	Illumina HiSeq	100 bp		Ill. Data library	[10]
D7	Caenorhabditis elegans	WS222	97.6 Mbp	58 X	Illumina HiSeq	101 bp		SRR543736	[23]
D8	Drosophila melanogaster	Release 5	116.4 Mbp	52 X	Illumina HiSeq	100 bp		SRR823377	[23]