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Table 5 Quality validation of programs for LTR retrotransposon prediction on the genome of D. melanogaster

From: LTRharvest, an efficient and flexible software for de novo detection of LTR retrotransposons

Program used

LTR_STRUC

LTR_seq

LTR_Rho

LTR_FINDER

LTR harvest

LTR harvest

LTR_seq

LTR_Rho

LTR_FINDER

LTR harvest

Run-number

1

2

3

4-1

5-1

5-2

6

7

8

9

Parameter set

default*

default

default

default

default

default + clustering

see Tab. 1

see Tab.1

see Tab. 1

see Tab.1 + clustering

Index files contruction [s]

-

-

-

-

138

138

-

-

-

138

Run-time [s]

4380

24120

2286

1209

25

198**

1380

1709

320

170**

Annotations 'full length'

304

304

304

304

304

304

304

304

304

304

Predictions

310

188

417

395

723

490

160

398

204

411

Sensitivity

37.5%

36.8%

94.7%

74.3%

94.7%

97.4%

35.2%

96.1%

52.0%

97.7%

Specificity

36.8%

59.6%

69.1%

57.2%

40.4%

60.4%

66.9%

73.4%

77.5%

72.3%

Annotations 'all'

682

682

682

682

682

682

682

682

682

682

Predictions

310

188

417

395

723

490

160

398

204

411

Sensitivity

20.1%

22.0%

54.0%

45.9%

58.9%

57.9%

19.8%

53.5%

28.7%

56.3%

Specificity

44.2%

79.8%

88.2%

90.3%

55.6%

80.6%

84.4%

91.7%

96.1%

93.4%

  1. * = parameters are not adjustable.
  2. ** = run-time LTRharvest + clustering with Vmatch.
  3. Details on parameter settings and exact numbers of predictions are shown in Table C of the Additional file 1. Sensitivity and specificity values were calculated against the D. melanogaster annotation counting all TPs and hTPs as true positives.