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Table 2 Comparison of our method with other prokaryotic prediction algorithms vis-à-vis Escherichia coli promoters.

From: A novel method for prokaryotic promoter prediction based on DNA stability

 

TP

FP(1/nt)a

FP(1/nt)b

Our Program

195

1/780

1/1474

Neural Network [19]

195

1/233

1/514

Staden's method [21]

195

1/65

1/233

  1. a The false positives in the 1000 nt fragments with TSS at the centre (-500 to +500).
  2. b The false positives in the 1000 nt fragments extracted from the centre of ORFs with length more than 2000 nt.