Table 4.

Comparison of the performance of MiCoP and MetaPhlAn2 on a mock viral community consisting of 9 species

	Precision	Recall	F1-Score	Reads per minute
MiCoP	0.875	0.77778	0.82353	87629
MetaPhlAn2	1.0	0.11111	0.19999	162845

MetaPhlAn2 only detects 1 of 9 species, with no false positives, while MiCoP detects 7 of 9 species with one false positive, thus profiling the community much more accurately. MetaPhlAn2 processed the reads about twice as fast as MiCoP