Table 3.

Searching Promoters for Genes with Known 3′ ESTs

Programs Training set of 118 promoters Test set of 120 promoters
true prediction (sensitivity) false prediction (FP/All P) undetected true prediction (sensitivity) false prediction (FP/All P) undetected
PROSCAN1.7 15 (13%)17 (53%)9912 (10%)21 (64%)97
NNPP2.0 33 (28%)43 (57%)5620 (17%)67 (77%)45
PromFD1.0 38 (32%)33 (46%)7836 (30%)61 (63%)62
promoter2.0 6 (5%)99 (94%)137 (6%)104 (94%)9
TSSG 39 (33%)11 (22%)6832 (27%)30 (48%)58
TSSW 32 (27%)19 (37%)6727 (23%)31 (53%)62
CONPRO 45 (38%)6 (12%)6744 (37%)8 (15%)68

[i] CONPRO predicts promoters for about 37% human genes. Of all the predictions made by CONPRO, about 85% are correct. Additional information is given in the legend of Table 1.