Table 3:
Identification performance of each tool with 1% base substitutions
| Group | Tool | Evaluation on phage (%) | Evaluation on plasmid (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPR | FPR | AUC | TPR | FPR | AUC | ||
| Group A 100–400 bp | PPR-Meta | 84.42 | 17.99 | 91.57 | 61.19 | 15.27 | 82.76 |
| VirFinder | 72.55 | 26.20 | 80.42 | NA | NA | NA | |
| VirSorter | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | NA | NA | NA | |
| PlasFlow | NA | NA | NA | 71.72 | 62.82 | 55.86 | |
| cBar | NA | NA | NA | 52.98 | 46.18 | 53.40 | |
| Group B 400–800 bp | PPR-Meta | 90.05 | 8.48 | 97.02 | 75.07 | 14.03 | 89.39 |
| VirFinder | 78.50 | 18.75 | 87.95 | NA | NA | NA | |
| VirSorter | 0.02 | 0 | 50.01 | NA | NA | NA | |
| PlasFlow | NA | NA | NA | 72.31 | 55.61 | 61.87 | |
| cBar | NA | NA | NA | 54.83 | 44.63 | 55.10 | |
| Group C 800–1,200 bp | PPR-Meta | 94.54 | 7.72 | 98.33 | 79.03 | 11.99 | 91.59 |
| VirFinder | 81.29 | 15.92 | 90.68 | NA | NA | NA | |
| VirSorter | 0.21 | 0 | 50.11 | NA | NA | NA | |
| PlasFlow | NA | NA | NA | 75.24 | 50.91 | 67.15 | |
| cBar | NA | NA | NA | 56.57 | 42.85 | 56.86 | |
| Group D 5–10 kbp | PPR-Meta | 98.97 | 3.15 | 99.75 | 87.65 | 7.20 | 95.83 |
| VirFinder | 88.90 | 8.19 | 97.01 | NA | NA | NA | |
| VirSorter | 60.30 | 1.13 | 79.80 | NA | NA | NA | |
| PlasFlow | NA | NA | NA | 88.57 | 31.42 | 87.86 | |
| cBar | NA | NA | NA | 64.31 | 34.63 | 64.84 | |
NA: not applicable.