TABLE 3.
The average, SD, and maximum MCC values of 11 OTU picking methods on the simulated dataset.
| DMSC (0.04) | USEARCH (0.01) | DySC (0.03) | ESPRIT-Forest (0.04) | CD-HIT (0.03) | CROP (0.03) | |
| Max. MCC | 0.9980 | 0.9369 | 0.9838 | 0.9947 | 0.9840 | 0.9980 |
| OTUs number | 9 | 528 | 17 | 16 | 27 | 9 |
| Ave. MCC | 0.9363 | 0.8198 | 0.7929 | 0.9286 | 0.9120 | 0.8347 |
| SD of MCC | 0.0343 | 0.0737 | 0.1750 | 0.0366 | 0.0451 | 0.1585 |
| VSEARCH (0.01) | DNACLUST (0.04) | Swarm (d = 15) | GramClust (0.05) | DBH (0.03) | Mothur-AL (0.04) | |
| Max. MCC | 0.9349 | 0.9921 | 0.9868 | 0.9106 | 0.9868 | 0.9980 |
| OTUs number | 1,291 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Ave. MCC | 0.8204 | 0.8891 | 0.5474 | 0.7832 | 0.8879 | 0.9564 |
| SD of MCC | 0.0578 | 0.0567 | 0.1385 | 0.1436 | 0.0781 | 0.0270 |
The value in the parentheses is the clustering threshold where each method achieves its peak MCC. For the Swarm method, it is the value of parameter d.