MTAP: The Motif Tool Assessment Platform

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Nucleotide Level Statistics. u_{i, j}represents the upstream regulatory sequence j at position i, RED is the set of annotated database positions found in the 'redfile', B represents a binding site predicted by method M.

Statistic	Definition
nTP	If u_{i, j}exists in both RED and B.
nFN	If u_{i, j}exists in RED and not in B.
nFP	If u_{i, j}exists in B and not in RED.
nTN	If u_{i, j}exists in neither RED nor B.

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