Table 2

Comparison of our method with other prokaryotic prediction algorithms vis-à-vis Escherichia coli promoters.


TP
FP(1/nt)a
FP(1/nt)b

Our Program
195
1/780
1/1474
Neural Network [19]
195
1/233
1/514
Staden's method [21]
195
1/65
1/233

a The false positives in the 1000 nt fragments with TSS at the centre (-500 to +500).

b The false positives in the 1000 nt fragments extracted from the centre of ORFs with length more than 2000 nt.

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