Table 8

Performance of DEBT and other β-turn type prediction methods based on the achieved MCC value.

Prediction method

MCC score for each β-turn type

I

II

IV

VIII

NS

DEBT

0.36

0.29

0.27

0.14

0.31

BETATURNS [39]

0.22

0.24

0.16

0.02

0.05

COUDES [28]

0.31

0.30

0.11

0.07

--

MOLEBRNN [32]

0.32

0.34

0.24

0.11

--

BTPRED [30]

0.22

0.25

0.06

0.03

--

Asgary et al. [40]

0.24

0.47

0.10

0.12

0.24

DEBT is more accurate that other methods in the prediction of types I, IV, VIII and NS. The results for BTPRED and the method by Asgary and colleagues are obtained using different datasets.

Kountouris and Hirst BMC Bioinformatics 2010 11:407   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-407