SiteSeek: Post-translational modification analysis using adaptive locality-effective kernel methods and new profiles

Table 5 Predictive performance of phosphorylation site predictors.

	Accuracy (Ac)	Sensitivity (Sn)	Specificity (Sp)	Correlation-Coefficient (Cc)	Type I Error	Type II Error
SiteSeek	0.866	0.844	0.885	0.730	0.063	0.071
PredPhospho	0.843	0.821	0.862	0.684	0.076	0.079
NetPhosK	0.836	0.790	0.876	0.670	0.066	0.099
Scansite	0.827	0.755	0.883	0.647	0.066	0.107
DISPHOS	0.805	0.773	0.827	0.601	0.092	0.106

Although each predictor was trained using its own training dataset, they all were tested on same benchmark dataset, (PS-Benchmark_1) which contains 1,668 polypeptide chains (Refer to Section "PS-Benchmark_1).

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