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In the fields of science, engineering, industry and statistics, the accuracy of a measurement system is the degree of closeness of measurements of a quantity to that quantity's actual (true) value (wikipedia). For transcriptome assembly, The accuracy metric is defined as the percentage of the correctly assembled bases estimated using the set of expressed reference transcripts (N). If reference transcripts are not available, then the reference genome can be used as an alternative. (Martin 2011)