From: ParsEval: parallel comparison and analysis of gene structure annotations
Method | Pros | Cons |
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Manual comparison | minimal overhead | extremely tedious; error prone; unscalable |
Genome browser | intuitive interface; visual assessment of individual loci | visual assessments imprecise; extensive overhead; little or no automation |
Eval | detailed statistics; visual assessment of statistic distributions; scales fairly well for large data sets; can compare multiple predictions to a single reference | older software; relatively slow; only summary statistics are reported, while stats for individual loci are discarded |
ParsEval | detailed statistics provided, not only as a summary but for individual loci as well; scales well for large data sets; fast, efficient, and portable | only capable of comparing a single pair of annotations |