The Percentage of Times our Single Best Prediction per Gene Hits a Known Site in the McCue et al. (2001) Study Set with and without Sigma Sites
| Without ς sites | With ς sites | |
| This study | 72.8% | 75.5% |
| McCue et al. 2001 | 79.8% | 82.0% |
[i] Our prediction consists of the 24 highest scoring sites around the maximum, as explained in the text. In a significant number of cases the corresponding best prediction from McCue et al. (2001) consists of several sites with a degenerate score. We made no prediction for 37 of the 183 genes in the study set, either because we had no homologue or no score above threshold. Our percentages are calculated with respect to the 146 genes where a prediction was made.