Table 3.

Summary of technical characteristics of the error-correction methods assessed in this study

Software tool	Data structure	Types of reads accepted	Organism	Journal	In the publication compared to	Tools webpage
Bless	Bloom filter and hash table	SE/PE	Human, E. coli, S. aureus	Bioinformatics	SGA, QuorUM, Lighter, BFC, DecGPU, ECHO, HiTEC, Musket, Quake, Reptile	https://sourceforge.net/p/bless-ec/wiki/Home/
Fiona	Partial suffix array	SE	Human, Drosophila, E. coli, C. elegans	Bioinformatics	Allpaths-LG, Coral, H-Shrec, ECHO, HiTEC, Quake	https://github.com/seqan/seqan/tree/master/apps/fiona
Pollux	Hash table	SE/PE	Human, E. coli, S. aureus, mixed genome data	BMC Bioinformatics	Quake, SGA, Bless, Musket, Racer	https://github.com/emarinier/pollux
BFC	Bloom filter and hash table	SE/PE	Human, C. elegans	Bioinformatics	Bless, Bloocoo, fermi2, Lighter, Musket, and SGA	https://github.com/lh3/bfc
Lighter	Bloom filter	SE/PE	Human, E. coli, C. elegans	Genome Biology	Quake, Musket, Bless, Soapec	https://github.com/mourisl/Lighter
Musket	Bloom filter and hash table	SE/PE	Human, E. coli, C. elegans	Bioinformatics	SGA, Quake	http://musket.sourceforge.net/homepage.htm
Racer	Hash table	SE/PE	Human, E. coli, C. elegans, Drosophila, other bacteria	Bioinformatics	Coral, HITEC, Quake, Reptile, SHREC	http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ilie/RACER/
Coral	Hash table	SE/PE	Human, E. coli, S. aureus	Bioinformatics	COMPASS 3.0, HHalign 1.5.1.1 and PSI-BLAST	https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/lmsalmel/coral/
RECKONER	Hash table	SE	Human, S. cerevisiae, C. elegans, M. acuminata	Bioinformatics	Ace, BFC, Bless, Blue, Karect, Lighter, Musket, Pollux, Racer, Trowel	https://github.com/refresh-bio/RECKONER
SGA	FM-index	SE/PE	Human, C. elegans, E. coli	Genome Research	Velvet, ABySS, SOAPdenovo, Quake, HiTEC	https://github.com/jts/sga