Figure 1

Maximum coverage reached at each taxonomic level for methods tested in 16S rRNA amplicon datasets. Panels from A-C corresponds to BLAST-alignment based methods and represents coverage at (A) 1%, (B) 5%, (C) 10% error cut-offs. Panels from (D–F) corresponds to BLAST-independent based methods and represents coverage at (A) 1%, (B) 5%, (C) 10% error cut-offs. The main differences are observed at class and order taxonomic levels for Metaxa2, SPINGO-GG and QIIME-GG methods.