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Table 4 Prediction accuracy of iTriplet versus four others motif finding methods.

From: iTriplet, a rule-based nucleic acid sequence motif finder

Algorithms

Nucleotide

level

  

Binding

level

  

Motif

level

 

nPC

nSn

nSp

nF

sPC

sSn

sSp

sF

mSr

sSr

iTriplet

0.195

0.292

0.322

0.286

0.319

0.489

0.418

0.422

0.853

0.591

MEME

0.180

0.551

0.214

0.296

0.258

0.733

0.280

0.397

1.000

0.817

WEEDER

0.128

0.274

0.245

0.208

0.263

0.538

0.332

0.367

0.833

0.532

BioProspector

0.102

0.372

0.129

0.179

0.212

0.704

0.224

0.328

0.986

0.670

MotifSampler

0.052

0.257

0.068

0.091

0.106

0.422

0.111

0.162

0.461

0.392

  1. PC, Sn, Sp and F are performance coefficient, sensitivity, specificity and F-measure level respectively. Prefixes 'n' and 's' represent nucleotide or binding site level measurements respectively. mSr and sSr are motif and sequence level accuracy respectively.