ProbCons: Probabilistic consistency-based multiple sequence alignment

Table 2.

Significance test for differences in BAliBASE performance




Align-M

DIALIGN

CLUSTALW

MAFFT

T-Coffee

MUSCLE

ProbCons

ProbCons-ext
Align-M −(0.61) −8.2 × 10−6 −<10−10 −<10−10 −<10−10 −<10−10 −<10−10
DIALIGN −1.9 × 10−5 −<10−10 −<10−10 −<10−10 −<10−10 −<10−10
CLUSTALW +2.4 × 10−3 −1.0 × 10−3 −3.0 × 10−5 −4.9 × 10−8 −6.1 × 10−10 −<10−10
MAFFT +1.2 × 10−9 +1.0 × 10−3 −(0.65) −1.7 × 10−5 −2.6 × 10−9 −4.9 × 10−8
T-Coffee +<10−10 +8.4 × 10−6 − (0.92) −7.0 × 10−3 −1.5 × 10−6 −8.4 × 10−6
MUSCLE +<10−10 +1.9 × 10−8 +9.6 × 10−6 +1.7 × 10−3 −3.0 × 10−3 −6.6 × 10−3
ProbCons +<10−10 +<10−10 +1.6 × 10−7 +1.9 × 10−6 +0.012 +0.043
ProbCons-ext

+<10−10
+<10−10
+8.3 × 10−6
+3.2 × 10−5
+(0.092)
−(0.088)

  • Entries show the p-value indicating the significance of a difference in performance between two alignment methods as measured using a Friedman rank test. Nonitalicized values above the diagonal were calculated using SP scores on all alignments, whereas italicized values were computed using CS scores. (+) Method on the left had lower average rank (better performance); (−) Method on the left had higher average rank (worse performance); parentheses denote (nonsignificant) p-values >0.05.

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