Table 2

The error detection power of the nuID checksum algorithm (N = 21)

L

1-character

2-character

3-character

Random

25mer

0.97780

0.97918

0.98689

0.99924

50mer

0.97724

0.97838

0.98607

0.99997

100mer

0.97894

0.97825

0.98617

1*

L and N are defined in Equation (3) and (4) in Methods. The column "1-character" is the error detection rate of an nuID with only one character mutated. Similar definition for column "2-character" and "3-character". "Random" column is error detection rate of a random ASCII string. The optimum detection power is 1.0.

* We realize the detection of nuIDs for 100mers is not guaranteed, but in none of our simulations did we ever encounter a randomly assembled string that was a valid nuID.

Du et al. Biology Direct 2007 2:16   doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-16