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. 2021 Apr 20;12:643682. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.643682

TABLE 1.

Properties of classifiers compared in this study.

Classifier Version Classifier type Base type References
MCP 2.0.15 Genome DNA This study
Ganon 0.1.5 k-mer (k = 19) DNA Piro et al., 2020
Kraken 2.0.7 k-mer (k = 35) DNA Wood et al., 2019
Bracken 2.5.0 k-mer (k = 35) DNA Lu et al., 2017
MetaCache 0.9.0 k-mer (k = 16) DNA Müller et al., 2017
Centrifuge 1.0.4 Genome DNA Kim et al., 2016
DIAMOND-LCA 0.9.29 Protein Protein Buchfink et al., 2015
Kaiju 1.7.2 Protein protein Menzel et al., 2016
mOTUs 2.5.1 Marker DNA Milanese et al., 2019
MetaPhlAn# 2.96.1 Marker DNA Truong et al., 2015

#Evaluated using MetaPhlAn database v296 downloaded on February 24, 2020.