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Table 4 Benchmark results of BayesMotif with false positive removal. Data are artificially generated by simulating hydrophobic and charged regions around a fixed 2 amino acids long anchor.

From: BayesMotif: de novo protein sorting motif discovery from impure datasets

True motif Ratio

10%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Motif Length

6 ± 0.83

17 ± 3.6

23 ± 1.2

23 ± 0.8

24 ± 0.7

27 ± 3.0

Motif Score

0.56 ± 0.11

0.79 ± 0.04

0.90 ± 0.01

0.95 ± 0.01

0.97 ± 0.007

0.98 ± 0.005

Motif Information

16.0 ± 1.1

23.9 ± 3.5

26.2 ± 1.2

26.3 ± 0.78

26.8 ± 0.39

27.9 ± 0.95