TABLE 2.
Maximum normalized mutual information (NMI) values for different OTU picking methods on the simulated dataset.
| DMSC (0.02) | USEARCH (0.05) | DySC (0.03) | ESPRIT-Forest (0.05) | CD-HIT (0.05) | CROP (0.03) | |
| Max. NMI | 0.9503 | 0.9107 | 0.9252 | 0.8979 | 0.9334 | 0.9334 |
| OTUs number | 9 | 10 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 9 |
| VSEARCH (0.07) | DNACLUST (0.05) | Swarm (d = 15) | GramClust (0.07) | DBH (0.03) | Mothur-AL (0.04) | |
| Max. NMI | 0.9334 | 0.9333 | 0.9334 | 0.8795 | 0.9293 | 0.9333 |
| OTUs number | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
The value in the parentheses is the clustering threshold where each method achieves its peak NMI. For the Swarm method, it is the value of parameter d.