Table 2

Accuracies of BLAST-based automated GO term predictors

Method

Precision

Recall

Harmonic Mean

Mean Term Assignments

N

Best BLAST

0.41

0.56

0.48

3.9

4710

Covering Graph

Ten highest scoring terms

0.20

0.48

0.28

7.7

4710

Terms with >0.1 normalised concordance

0.19

0.61

0.29

16.1

4710

Terms with >0.1 and <0.2 normalised concordance

0.09

0.10

0.09

2.7

4710

Terms with >0.1 and <0.9 normalised concordance

0.11

0.29

0.16

7.0

4710

Term Covariance Filter selection

0.24

0.35

0.28

3.4

4710

Term Distance Concordance

Ten highest scoring terms

0.33

0.63

0.43

6.3

4710

Term Covariance Filter selection

0.36

0.51

0.42

3.9

4710

Discriminant Function

Training set (post hoc)

0.70

0.59

0.64

2.4

2070

Test set (apriori)

0.61

0.51

0.55

2.0

10689

Jones et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:272   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-272