Summary table of metrics results of the methods for species identification.

Benchmark metrics scores for each classifier without detection limit (A), with an analytical detection limit of 0.0001 (B), and with an analytical detection limit of 0.001 (C). For richness, the relative proportion of informative reads (RPIR), precision and recall we provide the mean and standard deviation of all 21 samples; for the processing time we provide the sum of the total consumed time when running all the samples sequentially (format hh:mm:ss). The time for creating the databases and running in-house python scripts are omitted.