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Table 1 Taxonomic classifiers used for long reads

From: Unraveling metagenomics through long-read sequencing: a comprehensive review

Name

Algorithm

Reference database

Developed year

LRS affinity

MEGAN-LR [65]

Translation + LCA algorithm

NCBI nt

2018

ONT

 

Nucleotide + LCA algorithm

NCBI nt

 

ONT

MMseq2 [66]

Translation + LCA algorithm

NCBI nt

2017

PacBio

BugSeq-v2 [68]

Nucleotide + LCA algorithm

NCBI nt

2021

ONT

CDKAM [69]

Approximate matching + kmer

NCBI nt

2019

ONT

MetaMaps [70]

Approximate mapping + EM

Miniseq + H

2016

PacBio