Comparison of next-generation sequencing samples using compression-based distances and its application to phylogenetic reconstruction

Table 6 Parsimony score for the classification of 39 metagenomic samples using the alignment-free distances

	d ^NCD	d	d ^CDM	CVTree	$d_{2}^{S}$
Sub-data set	6	7	5	3	3
(omnivore samples excluded)
Full data set	9	12	12	10	10

For CVTree, we used k = 6 for the full data set and k = 4 for the sub-data set in which the omnivore samples were excluded. For d $_{2}^{S}$ , we used k = 7 for the full data set and k = 5 for the sub-data set. The two smallest parsimony scores for each data set are highlighted in boldface.

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