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