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Table 2 Accuracy measures used to assess the relative performance of the different summary methods

From: Efficient representation of uncertainty in multiple sequence alignments using directed acyclic graphs

Name

Notation

Definition

C-score

\(\alpha _{C}(\hat {A})\)

Modeller C

\({\alpha ^{m}_{C}}(\hat {A})\)

C +-score

\(\alpha _{C^{+}}(\hat {A})\)

Modeller C +

\(\alpha ^{m}_{C^{+}}(\hat {A})\)

  1. A denotes the true alignment and \(\hat {A}\) an estimated alignment, and |A| represents the length of alignment A.