Table 2 MicroTar target predictions compared to PicTar. A comparison of MicroTar and PicTar prediction results on three datasets of experimentally verified miRNA targets; MicroTar achieves better sensitivity in all three cases.
From: MicroTar: predicting microRNA targets from RNA duplexes
Program | Species | Targets Predicted (TP) | Targets in Dataset (TP + FN) | Sensitivity TP/(TP + FN) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MicroTar | D. melanogaster | 39 | 63 | 0.62 |
C. elegans | 8 | 13 | 0.62 | |
M. musculus | 24 | 43 | 0.56 | |
PicTar | D. melanogaster | 35 | 63 | 0.56 |
C. elegans | 7 | 13 | 0.54 | |
M. musculus | 15 | 43 | 0.35 |