Table 1 Quantitative evaluation of the four tested methods in 100 simulation datasets. The best performance was highlighted in bold

CNVnator

85.55±6.56 %

88.66±6.69 %

74.98±15.96 %

92.24±5.39 %

nbCNV

91.83±0.98 %

94.85±1.05 %

84.78±2.17 %

96.77±0.69 %

control-FREEC

87.59±2.10 %

94.43±1.13 %

73.32±6.15 %

96.88±0.93 %

poiCNV

89.41±1.77 %

92.76±0.89 %

80.61±4.89 %

95.58±0.72 %