Table 2.

Summary of error-correction methods’ parameters and publication details. Error-correction methods are sorted by the year of publication (indicated in the column “Published year”). We documented the underlying algorithm (indicated in the column “Underlying algorithm”), version of the error correction tool used (indicated in the column “Version”), and the name of the software tool (indicated in the column “Software tool”)

Software tool	Version	Underlying algorithm	Published year	Programming language	Default k-mer size
Coral	1.4.1	Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA)	2011	C	N/A
SGA	0.10.15	FM-index search	2012	C++	31
Musket	1.1	k-mer spectrum	2012	C++	N/A
Racer	1.0.1	k-mer spectrum	2013	C++	N/A
Bless	1.02	k-mer spectrum	2014	C++	N/A
Lighter	1.1.1	k-mer spectrum	2014	C++	N/A
Fiona	0.2.8	k-mer spectrum	2014	C++	N/A
BFC	1	k-mer spectrum	2015	C	N/A
Pollux	1.0.2	k-mer spectrum	2015	C	31
RECKONER	0.2.1	k-mer spectrum	2017	C++	N/A