Table 1

Error in the estimation of p-values using (g, k)-tables.

Test

k-mer size

Promoter Set

Error (Ave ± S.D.)

(g, k)-table

6

small

3.53e-5 ± 1.87e-4

large

2.65e-5 ± 1.04e-4

8

small

1.84e-5 ± 6.57e-5

large

1.16e-5 ± 4.35e-5

ESAsearch

small

1.23e-4 ± 5.96e-4

large

1.61e-4 ± 7.68e-4

Errors in the estimation of p-values using (g, k)-tables of various sequence sets and also the ESAsearch program [11,56]. The error in the calculation of p-values using (g, k)-tables decreases as larger k-mers and larger sequences are used to build the (g, k)-tables.

Schones et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:19   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-19